diff --git a/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/Helpers/Tester.cs b/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/Helpers/Tester.cs
index 27f5b4af7..feef9b6e3 100644
--- a/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/Helpers/Tester.cs
+++ b/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/Helpers/Tester.cs
@@ -238,6 +238,24 @@ namespace ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests.Helpers
 			}
 		}
 
+		public static CSharpDecompiler GetDecompilerForSnippet(string csharpText)
+		{
+			var syntaxTree = SyntaxFactory.ParseSyntaxTree(csharpText);
+			var compilation = CSharpCompilation.Create(
+				"TestAssembly",
+				new[] { syntaxTree },
+				defaultReferences.Value,
+				new CSharpCompilationOptions(OutputKind.DynamicallyLinkedLibrary));
+			var peStream = new MemoryStream();
+			var emitResult = compilation.Emit(peStream);
+			peStream.Position = 0;
+
+			var moduleDefinition = ModuleDefinition.ReadModule(peStream);
+			var decompiler = new CSharpDecompiler(moduleDefinition, new DecompilerSettings());
+
+			return decompiler;
+		}
+
 		internal static string GetSuffix(CompilerOptions cscOptions)
 		{
 			string suffix = "";
diff --git a/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests.csproj b/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests.csproj
index f92b8c612..8a9e88932 100644
--- a/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests.csproj
+++ b/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests.csproj
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
     <Compile Include="TestCases\Pretty\ExpressionTrees.cs" />
     <Compile Include="TestCases\Pretty\VariableNaming.cs" />
     <Compile Include="TestCases\Pretty\VariableNamingWithoutSymbols.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="Util\SequencePointTests.cs" />
     <None Include="TestCases\ILPretty\Issue959.cs" />
     <None Include="TestCases\ILPretty\FSharpLoops_Debug.cs" />
     <None Include="TestCases\ILPretty\FSharpLoops_Release.cs" />
diff --git a/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/Util/SequencePointTests.cs b/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/Util/SequencePointTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0be27921e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests/Util/SequencePointTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using ICSharpCode.Decompiler.CSharp.OutputVisitor;
+using ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests.Helpers;
+using ICSharpCode.Decompiler.TypeSystem;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+
+namespace ICSharpCode.Decompiler.Tests.Util
+{
+	[TestFixture]
+	public class SequencePointTests
+	{
+		[Test]
+		public void BasicSequencePoints()
+		{
+			TestCreateSequencePoints(@"class C { void M() { int i = 0; int j = 1; } }",
+				"int num = 0;",
+				"int num2 = 1;");
+		}
+
+		private void TestCreateSequencePoints(string code, params string[] expectedSequencePoints)
+		{
+			var decompiler = Tester.GetDecompilerForSnippet(code);
+
+			var firstType = decompiler.TypeSystem.Compilation.GetTopLevelTypeDefinitons().First(t => code.Contains(t.Name));
+			var tree = decompiler.DecompileType(firstType.FullTypeName);
+
+			var output = new StringWriter();
+			tree.AcceptVisitor(new InsertParenthesesVisitor { InsertParenthesesForReadability = true });
+			TokenWriter tokenWriter = new TextWriterTokenWriter(output);
+			tokenWriter = new InsertMissingTokensDecorator(tokenWriter, (ILocatable)tokenWriter);
+			var formattingOptions = FormattingOptionsFactory.CreateSharpDevelop();
+			tree.AcceptVisitor(new CSharpOutputVisitor(tokenWriter, formattingOptions));
+
+			var functionsWithSequencePoints = decompiler.CreateSequencePoints(tree);
+			var finalText = output.ToString();
+
+			var lines = finalText.Split(new[] { output.NewLine }, StringSplitOptions.None);
+
+			var actualSequencePoints = new List<string>();
+			foreach (var sequencePoint in functionsWithSequencePoints.Values.First()) {
+				if (sequencePoint.IsHidden) {
+					continue;
+				}
+
+				var line = lines[sequencePoint.StartLine - 1];
+				var text = line.Substring(sequencePoint.StartColumn - 1, sequencePoint.EndColumn - sequencePoint.StartColumn);
+				actualSequencePoints.Add(text);
+			}
+
+			Assert.True(Enumerable.SequenceEqual(expectedSequencePoints, actualSequencePoints));
+		}
+	}
+}
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