diff --git a/test/mocks/git-head.js b/test/mocks/git-head.js
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+++ b/test/mocks/git-head.js
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+module.exports = function (cb) {
+  cb(null, 'bar')
+}
diff --git a/test/mocks/github.js b/test/mocks/github.js
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+++ b/test/mocks/github.js
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+module.exports = () => ({
+  authenticate: () => true,
+  releases: {
+    createRelease: (release, cb) => cb(null)
+  }
+})
diff --git a/test/specs/post.js b/test/specs/post.js
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+++ b/test/specs/post.js
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+const { defaults } = require('lodash')
+const test = require('tap').test
+const proxyquire = require('proxyquire')
+
+const post = proxyquire('../../dist/post', {
+  'git-head': require('../mocks/git-head'),
+  github: require('../mocks/github')
+})
+
+const pkg = {
+  version: '1.0.0',
+  repository: {
+    url: 'http://github.com/whats/up.git'
+  }
+}
+
+const plugins = {
+  generateNotes: (pkg, cb) => cb(null, 'the log')
+}
+
+const defaultRelease = {
+  owner: 'whats',
+  repo: 'up',
+  name: 'v1.0.0',
+  tag_name: 'v1.0.0',
+  target_commitish: 'bar',
+  body: 'the log'
+}
+
+test('full post run', (t) => {
+  t.test('in debug mode w/o token', (tt) => {
+    post(pkg, {debug: true}, plugins, (err, published, release) => {
+      tt.error(err)
+      tt.is(published, false)
+      tt.match(release, defaults({draft: true}, defaultRelease))
+
+      tt.end()
+    })
+  })
+
+  t.test('in debug mode w token', (tt) => {
+    post(pkg, {debug: true, 'github-token': 'yo'}, plugins, (err, published, release) => {
+      tt.error(err)
+      tt.is(published, true)
+      tt.match(release, defaults({draft: true}, defaultRelease))
+
+      tt.end()
+    })
+  })
+
+  t.test('production', (tt) => {
+    post(pkg, {'github-token': 'yo'}, plugins, (err, published, release) => {
+      tt.error(err)
+      tt.is(published, true)
+      tt.match(release, defaultRelease)
+
+      tt.end()
+    })
+  })
+})