diff --git a/test_suite/tests/test_unstable.rs b/test_suite/tests/test_unstable.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ccc68c82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_suite/tests/test_unstable.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+// Copyright 2018 Serde Developers
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+#![deny(warnings)]
+#![cfg_attr(feature = "unstable", feature(raw_identifiers))]
+
+#[cfg(feature = "unstable")]
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate serde_derive;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "unstable")]
+extern crate serde;
+#[cfg(feature = "unstable")]
+extern crate serde_test;
+
+// This test target is convoluted with the actual #[test] in a separate file to
+// get it so that the stable compiler does not need to parse the code of the
+// test. If the test were written with #[cfg(feature = "unstable")] #[test]
+// right here, the stable compiler would fail to parse those raw identifiers
+// even if the cfg were not enabled.
+#[cfg(feature = "unstable")]
+mod unstable;
diff --git a/test_suite/tests/unstable/mod.rs b/test_suite/tests/unstable/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a8a3330
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_suite/tests/unstable/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+// Copyright 2018 Serde Developers
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+use serde_test::{assert_tokens, Token};
+
+#[test]
+fn test_raw_identifiers() {
+    #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+    #[allow(non_camel_case_types)]
+    enum r#type {
+        r#type {
+            r#type: (),
+        }
+    }
+
+    assert_tokens(
+        &r#type::r#type { r#type: () },
+        &[
+            Token::StructVariant { name: "type", variant: "type", len: 1 },
+            Token::Str("type"),
+            Token::Unit,
+            Token::StructVariantEnd,
+        ],
+    );
+}