diff --git a/test/e2e/framework/internal/unittests/cleanup/cleanup_test.go b/test/e2e/framework/internal/unittests/cleanup/cleanup_test.go
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+/*
+Copyright 2022 The Kubernetes Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package cleanup
+
+import (
+	"flag"
+	"regexp"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
+
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/internal/output"
+	testapiserver "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/utils/apiserver"
+)
+
+// The line number of the following code is checked in TestFailureOutput below.
+// Be careful when moving it around or changing the import statements above.
+// Here are some intentionally blank lines that can be removed to compensate
+// for future additional import statements.
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+//
+// This must be line #50.
+
+var _ = ginkgo.Describe("framework", func() {
+	ginkgo.BeforeEach(func() {
+		framework.Logf("before")
+	})
+
+	f := framework.NewDefaultFramework("test-namespace")
+
+	ginkgo.AfterEach(func() {
+		framework.Logf("after")
+		if f.ClientSet == nil {
+			framework.Fail("Wrong order of cleanup operations: framework.AfterEach already ran and cleared f.ClientSet.")
+		}
+	})
+
+	ginkgo.It("works", func() {
+		// DeferCleanup invokes in first-in-last-out order
+		ginkgo.DeferCleanup(func() {
+			framework.Logf("cleanup last")
+		})
+		ginkgo.DeferCleanup(func() {
+			framework.Logf("cleanup first")
+		})
+	})
+})
+
+const (
+	ginkgoOutput = `[BeforeEach] framework
+  cleanup_test.go:53
+INFO: before
+[BeforeEach] framework
+  framework.go:xxx
+STEP: Creating a kubernetes client
+INFO: >>> kubeConfig: yyy/kube.config
+STEP: Building a namespace api object, basename test-namespace
+INFO: Skipping waiting for service account
+[It] works
+  cleanup_test.go:66
+[AfterEach] framework
+  cleanup_test.go:59
+INFO: after
+[DeferCleanup] framework
+  cleanup_test.go:71
+INFO: cleanup first
+[DeferCleanup] framework
+  cleanup_test.go:68
+INFO: cleanup last
+[DeferCleanup] framework
+  framework.go:xxx
+[DeferCleanup] framework
+  framework.go:xxx
+STEP: Destroying namespace "test-namespace-zzz" for this suite.
+`
+)
+
+func TestCleanup(t *testing.T) {
+	apiServer := testapiserver.StartAPITestServer(t)
+
+	// This simulates how test/e2e uses the framework and how users
+	// invoke test/e2e.
+	framework.RegisterCommonFlags(flag.CommandLine)
+	framework.RegisterClusterFlags(flag.CommandLine)
+	for flagname, value := range map[string]string{
+		"kubeconfig": apiServer.KubeConfigFile,
+		// Some features are not supported by the fake cluster.
+		"e2e-verify-service-account": "false",
+		"allowed-not-ready-nodes":    "-1",
+		// This simplifies the text comparison.
+		"ginkgo.no-color": "true",
+	} {
+		if err := flag.Set(flagname, value); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("set %s: %v", flagname, err)
+		}
+	}
+	framework.AfterReadingAllFlags(&framework.TestContext)
+	suiteConfig, reporterConfig := framework.CreateGinkgoConfig()
+
+	expected := output.SuiteResults{
+		output.TestResult{
+			Name:            "framework works",
+			NormalizeOutput: normalizeOutput,
+			Output:          ginkgoOutput,
+		},
+	}
+
+	output.TestGinkgoOutput(t, expected, suiteConfig, reporterConfig)
+}
+
+func normalizeOutput(output string) string {
+	for exp, replacement := range map[string]string{
+		// Ignore line numbers inside framework source code (likely to change).
+		`framework\.go:\d+`: `framework.go:xxx`,
+		// Config file name varies for each run.
+		`kubeConfig: .*/kube.config`: `kubeConfig: yyy/kube.config`,
+		// Random suffix for namespace.
+		`test-namespace-\d+`: `test-namespace-zzz`,
+	} {
+		output = regexp.MustCompile(exp).ReplaceAllString(output, replacement)
+	}
+	return output
+}