diff --git a/common/lib/xmodule/tests/test_export.py b/common/lib/xmodule/tests/test_export.py
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+from xmodule.modulestore.xml import XMLModuleStore
+from nose.tools import assert_equals
+from tempfile import mkdtemp
+from fs.osfs import OSFS
+
+
+def check_export_roundtrip(data_dir):
+    print "Starting import"
+    initial_import = XMLModuleStore('org', 'course', data_dir, eager=True)
+    initial_course = initial_import.course
+
+    print "Starting export"
+    export_dir = mkdtemp()
+    fs = OSFS(export_dir)
+    xml = initial_course.export_to_xml(fs)
+    with fs.open('course.xml', 'w') as course_xml:
+        course_xml.write(xml)
+
+    print "Starting second import"
+    second_import = XMLModuleStore('org', 'course', export_dir, eager=True)
+
+    print "Checking key equality"
+    assert_equals(initial_import.modules.keys(), second_import.modules.keys())
+
+    print "Checking module equality"
+    for location in initial_import.modules.keys():
+        print "Checking", location
+        assert_equals(initial_import.modules[location], second_import.modules[location])