diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b00f76fa..497f740d 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ Imports:
     digest,
     jsonlite,
     logger
+Suggests: 
+    testthat (>= 3.0.0),
+    withr
+Config/testthat/edition: 3
diff --git a/tests/testthat.R b/tests/testthat.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..58fa1f4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat.R
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# This file is part of the standard setup for testthat.
+# It is recommended that you do not modify it.
+#
+# Where should you do additional test configuration?
+# Learn more about the roles of various files in:
+# * https://r-pkgs.org/testing-design.html#sec-tests-files-overview
+# * https://testthat.r-lib.org/articles/special-files.html
+
+library(testthat)
+library(pacta.workflow.utils)
+
+test_check("pacta.workflow.utils")
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-get_single_file_metadata.R b/tests/testthat/test-get_single_file_metadata.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1bb58b47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-get_single_file_metadata.R
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+test_that("get_single_file_metadata processes CSV tables correctly", {
+  csv_file <- withr::local_tempfile(fileext = ".csv")
+  write.csv(mtcars, csv_file, row.names = FALSE)
+  test_time <- as.POSIXct("2020-01-01T12:34:56+00:00")
+  Sys.setFileTime(csv_file, test_time)
+  metadata <- get_single_file_metadata(csv_file)
+  expect_identical(
+    metadata,
+    list(
+      file_name = basename(csv_file),
+      file_extension = "csv",
+      file_path = csv_file,
+      file_size = 1303L,
+      file_last_modified = format(
+        as.POSIXlt(test_time, tz = "UTC"),
+        "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00"
+      ),
+      file_md5 = "5143f7b8ed70e91698d432d721c11a63",
+      summary_info = list(
+        nrow = 32L,
+        colnames = colnames(mtcars),
+        class = "data.frame"
+      )
+    )
+  )
+})
+
+test_that("get_single_file_metadata processes RDS tables correctly", {
+  rds_file <- withr::local_tempfile(fileext = ".rds")
+  saveRDS(mtcars, rds_file)
+  test_time <- as.POSIXct("2020-01-01T12:34:56+00:00")
+  Sys.setFileTime(rds_file, test_time)
+  metadata <- get_single_file_metadata(rds_file)
+  expect_identical(
+    metadata,
+    list(
+      file_name = basename(rds_file),
+      file_extension = "rds",
+      file_path = rds_file,
+      file_size = 1225L,
+      file_last_modified = format(
+        as.POSIXlt(test_time, tz = "UTC"),
+        "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00"
+      ),
+      file_md5 = "23d45331b5667757134959aa333240ae",
+      summary_info = list(
+        nrow = 32L,
+        colnames = colnames(mtcars),
+        class = "data.frame"
+      )
+    )
+  )
+})
+
+test_that("get_single_file_metadata processes RDS non-tables correctly", {
+  rds_file <- withr::local_tempfile(fileext = ".rds")
+  saveRDS("This is a string", rds_file)
+  test_time <- as.POSIXct("2020-01-01T12:34:56+00:00")
+  Sys.setFileTime(rds_file, test_time)
+  metadata <- get_single_file_metadata(rds_file)
+  expect_identical(
+    metadata,
+    list(
+      file_name = basename(rds_file),
+      file_extension = "rds",
+      file_path = rds_file,
+      file_size = 67L,
+      file_last_modified = format(
+        as.POSIXlt(test_time, tz = "UTC"),
+        "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00"
+      ),
+      file_md5 = "9dbb0d8e2235c70d2d8a77b1409f1597",
+      summary_info = list(
+        class = "character"
+      )
+    )
+  )
+})
+
+test_that("get_single_file_metadata processes txt files correctly", {
+  txt_file <- withr::local_tempfile(fileext = ".txt")
+  writeLines("This is a string", txt_file)
+  test_time <- as.POSIXct("2020-01-01T12:34:56+00:00")
+  Sys.setFileTime(txt_file, test_time)
+  metadata <- get_single_file_metadata(txt_file)
+  expect_identical(
+    metadata,
+    list(
+      file_name = basename(txt_file),
+      file_extension = "txt",
+      file_path = txt_file,
+      file_size = 17L,
+      file_last_modified = format(
+        as.POSIXlt(test_time, tz = "UTC"),
+        "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00"
+      ),
+      file_md5 = "9ac4dbbc3c0ad2429e61d0df5dc28add"
+      # No summary info
+    )
+  )
+})