diff --git a/unittests/test_converters.py b/unittests/test_converters.py
index 30c5972c4f006aaf9923dfc058c3b861d8b5123b..802483c1d1eaf7f63096591ac7df7362f25f599a 100644
--- a/unittests/test_converters.py
+++ b/unittests/test_converters.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ from caoscrawler.converters import (Converter, ConverterValidationError,
                                     DictConverter, DirectoryConverter,
                                     handle_value, MarkdownFileConverter,
                                     JSONFileConverter)
+from caoscrawler.converters import _AbstractDictElementConverter
 from caoscrawler.crawl import Crawler
 from caoscrawler.stores import GeneralStore
 from caoscrawler.structure_elements import (File, DictTextElement,
@@ -385,3 +386,21 @@ MyElement:
         list(yaml.safe_load_all(two_doc_yaml)))
     assert "MyElement" in two_doc_definitions
     assert two_doc_definitions["MyElement"]["type"] == one_doc_definitions["MyElement"]["type"]
+
+
+def test_abstract_dict_element_converter():
+    definition = yaml.safe_load("""
+match_name: text
+match_value: .*begin(?P<text>.*)end
+    """)
+    converter = _AbstractDictElementConverter(
+        definition, "test_converter",
+        None  # This is possible when "subtree" is not used
+    )
+    element = DictTextElement("text", """
+begin
+bla
+end""")
+    val = converter.match(element)
+    assert val is not None
+    assert val["text"] == "\nbla\n"