diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/archive/tasks/broken-link.yml b/tests/integration/targets/archive/tasks/broken-link.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b1e0fb752b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/archive/tasks/broken-link.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+- name: Create broken link
+  file:
+    src: /nowhere
+    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/nowhere.txt"
+    state: link
+    force: yes
+
+- name: Archive broken link (tar.gz)
+  archive:
+    path: "{{ output_dir }}/*.txt"
+    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/archive_broken_link.tar.gz"
+
+- name: Archive broken link (tar.bz2)
+  archive:
+    path: "{{ output_dir }}/*.txt"
+    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/archive_broken_link.tar.bz2"
+
+- name: Archive broken link (zip)
+  archive:
+    path: "{{ output_dir }}/*.txt"
+    dest: "{{ output_dir }}/archive_broken_link.zip"
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/archive/tasks/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/archive/tasks/main.yml
index 1b114fd0f6..6d699bc427 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/archive/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/archive/tasks/main.yml
@@ -366,3 +366,6 @@
 - name: Remove backports.lzma if previously installed (pip)
   pip: name=backports.lzma state=absent
   when: backports_lzma_pip is changed
+
+- name: import broken-link tests
+  import_tasks: broken-link.yml