diff --git a/dmn-core/src/test/java/com/gs/dmn/serialization/jackson/NSElementDeserializerTest.java b/dmn-core/src/test/java/com/gs/dmn/serialization/jackson/NSElementDeserializerTest.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Goldman Sachs.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ *
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.gs.dmn.serialization.jackson;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.cfg.DeserializerFactoryConfig;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerFactory;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DefaultDeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerFactory;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.TextNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.TreeTraversingParser;
+import com.gs.dmn.serialization.xstream.dom.NSElement;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+
+class NSElementDeserializerTest {
+    private final NSElementDeserializer deserializer = new NSElementDeserializer();
+
+    @Test
+    void testDeserialize() throws IOException {
+        JsonNode node = new TextNode("text");
+        JsonParser parser = new TreeTraversingParser(node);
+        parser.setCodec(new ObjectMapper());
+        DeserializerFactoryConfig config = new DeserializerFactoryConfig();
+        DeserializerFactory df = new BeanDeserializerFactory(config);
+        DeserializationContext context = new DefaultDeserializationContext.Impl(df);
+        NSElement deserialize = deserializer.deserialize(parser, context);
+        assertNotNull(deserialize);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/dmn-core/src/test/java/com/gs/dmn/serialization/jackson/NSElementSerializerTest.java b/dmn-core/src/test/java/com/gs/dmn/serialization/jackson/NSElementSerializerTest.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2016 Goldman Sachs.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ *
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.gs.dmn.serialization.jackson;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.ObjectCodec;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.TokenBuffer;
+import com.gs.dmn.serialization.xstream.dom.NSElement;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class NSElementSerializerTest {
+    private final NSElementSerializer serializer = new NSElementSerializer();
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSerialize() throws IOException {
+        NSElement element = new NSElement(null, "prefix", "namespace");
+        ObjectCodec codec = new ObjectMapper();
+        JsonGenerator generator = new TokenBuffer(codec, false);
+        SerializerProvider serializers = new DefaultSerializerProvider.Impl();
+        serializer.serialize(element, generator, serializers);
+        assertTrue(true);
+    }
+}
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