diff --git a/test/libsolidity/syntaxTests/parsing/assembly_evmasm_type.sol b/test/libsolidity/syntaxTests/parsing/assembly_evmasm_type.sol
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28a07e634
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/libsolidity/syntaxTests/parsing/assembly_evmasm_type.sol
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+contract C {
+  function f() public pure {
+    assembly "evmasm" {}
+  }
+}
diff --git a/test/libsolidity/syntaxTests/parsing/assembly_invalid_type.sol b/test/libsolidity/syntaxTests/parsing/assembly_invalid_type.sol
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c2d39279f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/libsolidity/syntaxTests/parsing/assembly_invalid_type.sol
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+contract C {
+  function f() public pure {
+    assembly "failasm" {}
+  }
+}
+// ----
+// ParserError: (55-64): Only "evmasm" supported.