--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/test/testsamples.py	Fri Mar 14 10:30:13 2014 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import unittest
+from testemulation import runQemu
+from ppci.recipe import RecipeLoader
+from ppci.tasks import TaskRunner
+
+
+class TestSamples:
+    def testPrint(self):
+        snippet = """
+         module testsample;
+         import io;
+         function void start()
+         {
+            io.print("Hello world");
+         }
+        """
+        self.do(snippet, "Hello world")
+
+    def testForLoopPrint(self):
+        snippet = """
+         module testsample;
+         import io;
+         function void start()
+         {
+            var int i;
+            for (i=0;i<10;i++)
+            {
+              io.print("A");
+            }
+         }
+        """
+        self.do(snippet, "AAAAAAAAAA")
+
+
+class TestSamplesOnVexpress(unittest.TestCase, TestSamples):
+    def do(self, src, expected_output):
+        runner = TaskRunner()
+        recipe_loader = RecipeLoader(runner)
+        return
+        # TODO: improve recipe loading??
+        recipe_loader.load_dict({
+             'link': {
+               'inputs': [
+               ],
+               'layout': {
+                 'code': 0x60010000,
+                 'data': 0x60020000
+               },
+               'output': 'tst.bin'
+             }
+            })
+        runner.add_task(Compile())
+        runner.run_tasks()
+        res = runQemu()
+        self.assertEqual(expected_output, res)
+