diff --git a/tests/bulkdata/tile_excel_tests.py b/tests/bulkdata/tile_excel_tests.py
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+"""
+ARCHES - a program developed to inventory and manage immovable cultural heritage.
+Copyright (C) 2013 J. Paul Getty Trust and World Monuments Fund
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+"""
+
+from arches.app.utils.betterJSONSerializer import JSONDeserializer
+from arches.app.utils.data_management.resource_graphs.importer import (
+    import_graph as ResourceGraphImporter,
+)
+from arches.app.utils.i18n import LanguageSynchronizer
+from django.core.management import call_command
+from django.test import TransactionTestCase
+from io import StringIO
+import os
+
+# these tests can be run from the command line via
+# python manage.py test tests.bulkdata.tile_excel_tests --settings="tests.test_settings"
+
+
+class TileExcelTests(TransactionTestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        LanguageSynchronizer.synchronize_settings_with_db()
+        with open(
+            os.path.join("tests/fixtures/resource_graphs/Resource Test Model.json"),
+            "r",
+        ) as f:
+            archesfile = JSONDeserializer().deserialize(f)
+        ResourceGraphImporter(archesfile["graph"])
+
+    def test_cli(self):
+        out = StringIO()
+        excel_file_path = "tests/fixtures/data/uploadedfiles/tile_excel_test.xlsx"
+        call_command("etl", "tile-excel-importer", source=excel_file_path, stdout=out)
+        self.assertIn("succeeded", out.getvalue())
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