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+import { render, screen, waitFor } from '@testing-library/react';
+import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
+import React from 'react';
+
+import { LokiDatasource } from '../../datasource';
+import { createLokiDatasource } from '../../mocks';
+import { LokiVisualQuery, LokiVisualQueryBinary } from '../types';
+
+import { EXPLAIN_LABEL_FILTER_CONTENT } from './LokiQueryBuilderExplained';
+import { NestedQueryList, Props as NestedQueryListProps } from './NestedQueryList';
+
+const X_BUTTON_LABEL = 'Remove nested query';
+function createMockProps(nestedQueriesCount = 1, showExplain = false): NestedQueryListProps {
+  const operators: string[] = ['+', '-', '*', '/'];
+  const nestedQueries: LokiVisualQueryBinary[] = [...Array(nestedQueriesCount).keys()].map((i) => ({
+    operator: operators[i % operators.length],
+    query: {
+      labels: [],
+      operations: [],
+    },
+  }));
+
+  const query: LokiVisualQuery = {
+    labels: [],
+    operations: [],
+    binaryQueries: nestedQueries,
+  };
+  const datasource: LokiDatasource = createLokiDatasource();
+
+  const props: NestedQueryListProps = {
+    query: query,
+    datasource: datasource,
+    showExplain: showExplain,
+    onChange: jest.fn(),
+    onRunQuery: jest.fn(),
+  };
+
+  return props;
+}
+
+describe('render nested queries', () => {
+  it.each([1, 3])('%i nested queries can be rendered', async (queriesCount) => {
+    const props = createMockProps(queriesCount, false);
+    render(<NestedQueryList {...props} />);
+
+    const nestedQueryCloseButtons = await screen.findAllByLabelText(X_BUTTON_LABEL);
+    expect(nestedQueryCloseButtons).toHaveLength(queriesCount);
+  });
+
+  it('shows explanations for all nested queries', async () => {
+    const props = createMockProps(3, true);
+    render(<NestedQueryList {...props} />);
+
+    const nestedQueryCloseButtons = await screen.findAllByText(EXPLAIN_LABEL_FILTER_CONTENT);
+    expect(nestedQueryCloseButtons).toHaveLength(3);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('events from nested queries', () => {
+  it('onChange is called when user removes one', async () => {
+    const props: NestedQueryListProps = createMockProps(3, false);
+    render(<NestedQueryList {...props} />);
+
+    const xButton: HTMLElement[] = await screen.findAllByLabelText(X_BUTTON_LABEL);
+    await userEvent.click(xButton[0]);
+
+    const removedQuery: LokiVisualQueryBinary[] = [props.query.binaryQueries![0]];
+    await waitFor(() => {
+      expect(props.onChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith({
+        ...props.query,
+        binaryQueries: expect.not.arrayContaining(removedQuery),
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('onChange is called from sub-query', async () => {
+    const props = createMockProps(4, false);
+    const subQuery = { ...props.query.binaryQueries![3] };
+    props.query.binaryQueries![0].query.binaryQueries = [subQuery];
+    render(<NestedQueryList {...props} />);
+
+    const xButton: HTMLElement[] = await screen.findAllByLabelText(X_BUTTON_LABEL);
+    await userEvent.click(xButton[1]);
+
+    await waitFor(async () => {
+      expect(props.onChange).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    });
+  });
+});