diff --git a/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/in b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/in
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..6c6a27fcfb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/in
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../add-basic.in
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/mod.rs b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0f19f4a31c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+use crate::prelude::*;
+use cargo_test_support::Project;
+use cargo_test_support::compare::assert_ui;
+use cargo_test_support::current_dir;
+use cargo_test_support::file;
+use cargo_test_support::str;
+
+#[cargo_test]
+fn case() {
+    cargo_test_support::registry::init();
+    for ver in [
+        "0.1.1+my-package",
+        "0.2.0+my-package",
+        "0.2.3+my-package",
+        "0.4.1+my-package",
+        "20.0.0+my-package",
+        "99999.0.0+my-package",
+        "99999.0.0-alpha.1+my-package",
+    ] {
+        cargo_test_support::registry::Package::new("my-package", ver).publish();
+    }
+
+    let project = Project::from_template(current_dir!().join("in"));
+    let project_root = project.root();
+    let cwd = &project_root;
+
+    snapbox::cmd::Command::cargo_ui()
+        .arg("add")
+        .arg_line("my-package@latest")
+        .current_dir(cwd)
+        .assert()
+        .failure()
+        .stdout_eq(str![""])
+        .stderr_eq(file!["stderr.term.svg"]);
+
+    assert_ui().subset_matches(current_dir!().join("out"), &project_root);
+}
diff --git a/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/out/Cargo.toml b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/out/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..946b7c86bf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/out/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[workspace]
+
+[package]
+name = "cargo-list-test-fixture"
+version = "0.0.0"
+edition = "2015"
diff --git a/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/stderr.term.svg b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/stderr.term.svg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9505c56dd85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/add_latest/stderr.term.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<svg width="740px" height="110px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
+  <style>
+    .fg { fill: #AAAAAA }
+    .bg { fill: #000000 }
+    .fg-bright-red { fill: #FF5555 }
+    .container {
+      padding: 0 10px;
+      line-height: 18px;
+    }
+    .bold { font-weight: bold; }
+    tspan {
+      font: 14px SFMono-Regular, Consolas, Liberation Mono, Menlo, monospace;
+      white-space: pre;
+      line-height: 18px;
+    }
+  </style>
+
+  <rect width="100%" height="100%" y="0" rx="4.5" class="bg" />
+
+  <text xml:space="preserve" class="container fg">
+    <tspan x="10px" y="28px"><tspan class="fg-bright-red bold">error</tspan><tspan>: invalid version requirement `latest`</tspan>
+</tspan>
+    <tspan x="10px" y="46px">
+</tspan>
+    <tspan x="10px" y="64px"><tspan>Caused by:</tspan>
+</tspan>
+    <tspan x="10px" y="82px"><tspan>  unexpected character 'l' while parsing major version number</tspan>
+</tspan>
+    <tspan x="10px" y="100px">
+</tspan>
+  </text>
+
+</svg>
diff --git a/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/mod.rs b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/mod.rs
index bd9024466ac..c1ac29febd1 100644
--- a/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/mod.rs
+++ b/tests/testsuite/cargo_add/mod.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 mod add_basic;
+mod add_latest;
 mod add_multiple;
 mod add_no_vendored_package_with_alter_registry;
 mod add_no_vendored_package_with_vendor;