diff --git a/test/js/resources/when-repositories-update-policy.xml b/test/js/resources/when-repositories-update-policy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e42a082d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/js/resources/when-repositories-update-policy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
+                        http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
+
+  <activeProfiles>
+    <activeProfile>github</activeProfile>
+  </activeProfiles>
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>github</id>
+      <repositories>
+        <repository>
+          <id>foo</id>
+          <name>foo</name>
+          <url>http://foo.bar</url>
+          <releases>
+            <enabled>true</enabled>
+            <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
+          </releases>
+          <snapshots>
+            <enabled>true</enabled>
+          </snapshots>
+        </repository>
+      </repositories>
+      <pluginRepositories/>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
+
+  <servers/>
+
+  <mirrors/>
+
+  <pluginGroups/>
+
+  <proxies/>
+
+</settings>
diff --git a/test/js/update-repositories.js b/test/js/update-repositories.js
index ad9a42ea..01b5e182 100644
--- a/test/js/update-repositories.js
+++ b/test/js/update-repositories.js
@@ -63,5 +63,24 @@ describe('validate repositories', function () {
         });
     });
 
+    describe('when configuring updatePolicy on repositories', function () {
+        it('<repositories><releases> should be appended with <updatePolicy>', function () {
+            // given input
+            process.env['INPUT_REPOSITORIES'] = '[{ "id": "foo", "name": "foo", "url": "http://foo.bar", "releases": { "enabled": "true", "updatePolicy": "always" }, "snapshots": { "enabled": "true" } }]';
+
+            // when
+            var actualXml = settings.getSettingsTemplate();
+            settings.update(actualXml);
+            var actual = settings.formatSettings(actualXml);
+
+            // then
+            var expectedXml = settings.getTemplate('../test/js/resources/', 'when-repositories-update-policy.xml');
+            expected = settings.formatSettings(expectedXml);
+            assert.equal(actual, expected);
+
+            process.env['INPUT_REPOSITORIES'] = '';
+        });
+    });
+
 });