diff --git a/dashboard/client/components/dock/dock.tsx b/dashboard/client/components/dock/dock.tsx
index ff47c3f727..d384c36608 100644
--- a/dashboard/client/components/dock/dock.tsx
+++ b/dashboard/client/components/dock/dock.tsx
@@ -119,12 +119,12 @@ export class Dock extends React.Component<Props> {
           />
           <div className="toolbar flex gaps align-center box grow">
             <div className="dock-menu box grow">
-              <MenuActions usePortal triggerIcon={{ material: "add", tooltip: <Trans>New tab</Trans> }} closeOnScroll={false}>
-                <MenuItem onClick={() => createTerminalTab()}>
+              <MenuActions usePortal triggerIcon={{ material: "add", className: "new-dock-tab", tooltip: <Trans>New tab</Trans> }} closeOnScroll={false}>
+                <MenuItem className="create-terminal-tab" onClick={() => createTerminalTab()}>
                   <Icon small svg="terminal" size={15}/>
                   <Trans>Terminal session</Trans>
                 </MenuItem>
-                <MenuItem onClick={() => createResourceTab()}>
+                <MenuItem className="create-resource-tab" onClick={() => createResourceTab()}>
                   <Icon small material="create"/>
                   <Trans>Create resource</Trans>
                 </MenuItem>
diff --git a/dashboard/client/components/layout/sidebar.tsx b/dashboard/client/components/layout/sidebar.tsx
index 5cd77c6746..db8e53836e 100644
--- a/dashboard/client/components/layout/sidebar.tsx
+++ b/dashboard/client/components/layout/sidebar.tsx
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class SidebarNavItem extends React.Component<SidebarNavItemProps> {
   }
 
   render() {
-    const { isHidden, subMenus = [], icon, text, url, children, className } = this.props;
+    const { id, isHidden, subMenus = [], icon, text, url, children, className } = this.props;
     if (isHidden) {
       return null;
     }
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ class SidebarNavItem extends React.Component<SidebarNavItemProps> {
     if (extendedView) {
       const isActive = this.isActive();
       return (
-        <div className={cssNames("SidebarNavItem", className)}>
+        <div id={id} className={cssNames("SidebarNavItem", className)}>
           <div className={cssNames("nav-item", { active: isActive })} onClick={this.toggleSubMenu}>
             {icon}
             <span className="link-text">{text}</span>
diff --git a/spec/integration/specs/app_spec.ts b/spec/integration/specs/app_spec.ts
index 414c3288bd..4b52f3b115 100644
--- a/spec/integration/specs/app_spec.ts
+++ b/spec/integration/specs/app_spec.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import { stat } from "fs"
 
 jest.setTimeout(20000)
 
+const BACKSPACE = "\uE003"
+
 describe("app start", () => {
   let app: Application
   const clickWhatsNew = async (app: Application) => {
@@ -13,6 +15,24 @@ describe("app start", () => {
     await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("h1", "Welcome")
   }
 
+  const addMinikubeCluster = async (app: Application) => {
+    await app.client.click("a#add-cluster")
+    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("legend", "Choose config:")
+    await app.client.selectByVisibleText("select#kubecontext-select", "minikube (new)")
+    await app.client.click("button.btn-primary")
+  }
+
+  const waitForMinikubeDashboard = async (app: Application) => {
+    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("pre.auth-output", "Authentication proxy started")
+    let windowCount = await app.client.getWindowCount()
+    // wait for webview to appear on window count
+    while (windowCount == 1) {
+      windowCount = await app.client.getWindowCount()
+    }
+    await app.client.windowByIndex(windowCount - 1)
+    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("span.link-text", "Cluster")
+  }
+
   beforeEach(async () => {
     app = util.setup()
     await app.start()
@@ -32,22 +52,48 @@ describe("app start", () => {
       return
     }
     await clickWhatsNew(app)
-    await app.client.click("a#add-cluster")
-    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("legend", "Choose config:")
-    await app.client.selectByVisibleText("select#kubecontext-select", "minikube (new)")
-    await app.client.click("button.btn-primary")
-    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("pre.auth-output", "Authentication proxy started")
-    let windowCount = await app.client.getWindowCount()
-    // wait for webview to appear on window count
-    while (windowCount == 1) {
-      windowCount = await app.client.getWindowCount()
-    }
-    await app.client.windowByIndex(windowCount - 1)
-    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("span.link-text", "Cluster")
+    await addMinikubeCluster(app)
+    await waitForMinikubeDashboard(app)
     await app.client.click('a[href="/nodes"]')
     await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("div.TableCell", "minikube")
   })
 
+  it('allows to create a pod', async () => {
+    const status = spawnSync("minikube status", {shell: true})
+    if (status.status !== 0) {
+      console.warn("minikube not running, skipping test")
+      return
+    }
+    await clickWhatsNew(app)
+    await addMinikubeCluster(app)
+    await waitForMinikubeDashboard(app)
+    await app.client.click(".sidebar-nav #workloads span.link-text")
+    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists('a[href="/pods"]', "Pods")
+    await app.client.click('a[href="/pods"]')
+    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("div.TableCell", "kube-apiserver-minikube")
+    await app.client.click('.Icon.new-dock-tab')
+    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("li.MenuItem.create-resource-tab", "Create resource")
+    await app.client.click("li.MenuItem.create-resource-tab")
+    await app.client.waitForVisible(".CreateResource div.ace_content")
+    // Write pod manifest to editor
+    await app.client.keys("apiVersion: v1\n")
+    await app.client.keys("kind: Pod\n")
+    await app.client.keys("metadata:\n")
+    await app.client.keys("  name: nginx\n")
+    await app.client.keys(BACKSPACE + "spec:\n")
+    await app.client.keys("  containers:\n")
+    await app.client.keys("- name: nginx\n")
+    await app.client.keys("  image: nginx:alpine\n")
+    // Create deployent
+    await app.client.waitForEnabled("button.Button=Create & Close")
+    await app.client.click("button.Button=Create & Close")
+    // Wait until first bits of pod appears on dashboard
+    await app.client.waitForExist(".name=nginx")
+    // Open pod details
+    await app.client.click(".name=nginx")
+    await app.client.waitUntilTextExists("div.drawer-title-text", "Pod: nginx")
+  })
+
   afterEach(async () => {
     if (app && app.isRunning()) {
       return util.tearDown(app)