diff --git a/tests/Functional/Net/SCPSSH2UserStoryTest.php b/tests/Functional/Net/SCPSSH2UserStoryTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..561be6ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Functional/Net/SCPSSH2UserStoryTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @author    Andreas Fischer <bantu@phpbb.com>
+ * @copyright MMXIV Andreas Fischer
+ * @license   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html  MIT License
+ */
+
+class Functional_Net_SCPSSH2UserStoryTest extends PhpseclibFunctionalTestCase
+{
+    static protected $remoteFile;
+    static protected $exampleData;
+    static protected $exampleDataLength;
+
+    static public function setUpBeforeClass()
+    {
+        if (getenv('TRAVIS') && version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '<')) {
+            self::markTestIncomplete(
+                'This test fails on Travis CI on PHP 5.2 due to requiring GMP.'
+            );
+        }
+        parent::setUpBeforeClass();
+        self::$remoteFile = uniqid('phpseclib-scp-ssh2-') . '.txt';
+        self::$exampleData = str_repeat('abscp12345', 1000);
+        self::$exampleDataLength = 10000;
+    }
+
+    public function testConstructSSH2()
+    {
+        $ssh = new Net_SSH2($this->getEnv('SSH_HOSTNAME'));
+        $this->assertTrue(
+            $ssh->login(
+                $this->getEnv('SSH_USERNAME'),
+                $this->getEnv('SSH_PASSWORD')
+            )
+        );
+        return $ssh;
+    }
+
+    /** @depends testConstructSSH2 */
+    public function testConstructor($ssh)
+    {
+        $scp = new Net_SCP($ssh);
+        $this->assertTrue(
+            is_object($scp),
+            'Could not construct Net_SCP object.'
+        );
+        return $scp;
+    }
+
+    /** @depends testConstructor */
+    public function testPutGetString($scp)
+    {
+        $this->assertTrue(
+            $scp->put(self::$remoteFile, self::$exampleData),
+            'Failed asserting that data could successfully be put() into file.'
+        );
+        $content = $scp->get(self::$remoteFile);
+        // TODO: Address https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/issues/146
+        $this->assertContains(
+            strlen($content),
+            array(self::$exampleDataLength, self::$exampleDataLength + 1),
+            'Failed asserting that string length matches expected length.'
+        );
+        $this->assertContains(
+            $content,
+            array(self::$exampleData, self::$exampleData . "\0"),
+            'Failed asserting that string content matches expected content.'
+        );
+        return $scp;
+    }
+
+    /** @depends testPutGetString */
+    public function testGetFile($scp)
+    {
+        $localFilename = $this->createTempFile();
+        $this->assertTrue(
+            $scp->get(self::$remoteFile, $localFilename),
+            'Failed asserting that get() into file was successful.'
+        );
+        // TODO: Address https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/issues/146
+        $this->assertContains(
+            filesize($localFilename),
+            array(self::$exampleDataLength, self::$exampleDataLength + 1),
+            'Failed asserting that filesize matches expected data size.'
+        );
+        $this->assertContains(
+            file_get_contents($localFilename),
+            array(self::$exampleData, self::$exampleData . "\0"),
+            'Failed asserting that file content matches expected content.'
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/PhpseclibTestCase.php b/tests/PhpseclibTestCase.php
index 3369ad16..f0f75d9a 100644
--- a/tests/PhpseclibTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/PhpseclibTestCase.php
@@ -7,6 +7,32 @@
 
 abstract class PhpseclibTestCase extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 {
+    protected $tempFilesToUnlinkOnTearDown = array();
+
+    public function tearDown()
+    {
+        foreach ($this->tempFilesToUnlinkOnTearDown as $filename) {
+            if (!file_exists($filename) || unlink($filename)) {
+                unset($this->tempFilesToUnlinkOnTearDown[$filename]);
+            }
+        }
+        parent::tearDown();
+    }
+
+    /**
+    * Creates a temporary file on the local filesystem and returns its path.
+    * All files created using this method will be deleted from the filesystem
+    * on tearDown(), i.e. after each test method was run.
+    *
+    * @return string
+    */
+    protected function createTempFile()
+    {
+        $filename = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'phpseclib-test-');
+        $this->tempFilesToUnlinkOnTearDown[] = $filename;
+        return $filename;
+    }
+
     /**
     * @param string $constant
     * @param mixed $expected