diff --git a/core-java-8/src/test/java/com/baeldung/fileToBase64StringConversion/FileToBase64StringConversionUnitTest.java b/core-java-8/src/test/java/com/baeldung/fileToBase64StringConversion/FileToBase64StringConversionUnitTest.java
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+package com.baeldung.fileToBase64StringConversion;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Base64;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class FileToBase64StringConversionUnitTest {
+
+    private String inputFilePath = "test_image.jpg";
+    private String outputFilePath = "test_image_copy.jpg";
+
+    @Test
+    public void fileToBase64StringConversion() throws IOException {
+        //load file from /src/test/resources
+        ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
+        File inputFile = new File(classLoader
+          .getResource(inputFilePath)
+          .getFile());
+
+        byte[] fileContent = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(inputFile);
+        String encodedString = Base64
+          .getEncoder()
+          .encodeToString(fileContent);
+
+        //create output file
+        File outputFile = new File(inputFile
+          .getParentFile()
+          .getAbsolutePath() + File.pathSeparator + outputFilePath);
+
+        // decode the string and write to file
+        byte[] decodedBytes = Base64
+          .getDecoder()
+          .decode(encodedString);
+        FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(outputFile, decodedBytes);
+
+        assertTrue(FileUtils.contentEquals(inputFile, outputFile));
+    }
+}
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