diff --git a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/operations/recon/ReconUseValuesAsIdsOperation.java b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/operations/recon/ReconUseValuesAsIdsOperation.java
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+package com.google.refine.tests.operations.recon;
+
+import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.testng.Assert.assertNull;
+
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import org.json.JSONException;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import com.google.refine.model.Project;
+import com.google.refine.model.recon.StandardReconConfig;
+import com.google.refine.operations.OperationRegistry;
+import com.google.refine.operations.recon.ReconUseValuesAsIdentifiersOperation;
+import com.google.refine.tests.RefineTest;
+import com.google.refine.tests.util.TestUtils;
+
+
+public class ReconUseValuesAsIdsOperation extends RefineTest {
+    String json = "{"
+            + "\"op\":\"core/recon-use-values-as-identifiers\","
+            + "\"description\":\"Use values as reconciliation identifiers in column ids\","
+            + "\"columnName\":\"ids\","
+            + "\"engineConfig\":{\"mode\":\"row-based\",\"facets\":[]},"
+            + "\"service\":\"http://localhost:8080/api\","
+            + "\"identifierSpace\":\"http://test.org/entities\","
+            + "\"schemaSpace\":\"http://test.org/schema\""
+            + "}";
+    
+    @BeforeSuite
+    public void registerOperation() {
+        OperationRegistry.registerOperation(getCoreModule(), "recon-use-values-as-identifiers", ReconUseValuesAsIdentifiersOperation.class);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void serializeReconUseValuesAsIdentifiersOperation() throws JSONException, Exception {
+        TestUtils.isSerializedTo(ReconUseValuesAsIdentifiersOperation.reconstruct(new JSONObject(json)), json);
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testUseValuesAsIds() throws JSONException, Exception {
+        Project project = createCSVProject("ids,v\n"
+                + "Q343,hello\n"
+                + ",world\n"
+                + "Q31,test");
+        ReconUseValuesAsIdentifiersOperation op = ReconUseValuesAsIdentifiersOperation.reconstruct(new JSONObject(json));
+        op.createProcess(project, new Properties()).performImmediate();
+        
+        assertEquals("Q343", project.rows.get(0).cells.get(0).recon.match.id);
+        assertEquals("http://test.org/entities", project.rows.get(0).cells.get(0).recon.identifierSpace);
+        assertNull(project.rows.get(1).cells.get(0));
+        assertEquals("Q31", project.rows.get(2).cells.get(0).recon.match.id);
+        assertEquals(2, project.columnModel.columns.get(0).getReconStats().matchedTopics);
+        assertEquals("http://test.org/schema", ((StandardReconConfig)project.columnModel.columns.get(0).getReconConfig()).schemaSpace);
+    }
+}