diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
index e1867ee465..a471d16e13 100644
--- a/tests/.gitignore
+++ b/tests/.gitignore
@@ -15,3 +15,6 @@ queue
 registry
 rip
 paranoia
+props
+autoplug
+mp3encode
diff --git a/tests/props.c b/tests/props.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5fac483095
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/props.c
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#include <gst/gst.h>
+
+static GstPropsFactory mpeg2dec_sink_props = {
+  "mpegtype", GST_PROPS_LIST (
+                     GST_PROPS_INT(1),
+                     GST_PROPS_INT(2)
+		),
+  NULL
+};
+
+static GstPropsFactory mpeg2dec_src_props = {
+  "fourcc", 	GST_PROPS_LIST (
+                        GST_PROPS_FOURCC ('Y','V','1','2'), 
+ 			GST_PROPS_FOURCC_INT (0x56595559)
+			),
+  "width",	GST_PROPS_INT_RANGE (16, 4096),
+  "height",	GST_PROPS_INT_RANGE (16, 4096),
+  NULL
+};
+
+static GstProps *sinkprops = NULL, 
+                *rawprops = NULL,
+                *testprops = NULL;
+
+int main(int argc,char *argv[]) 
+{
+  xmlDocPtr doc;
+  xmlNodePtr parent;
+  gint i;
+
+  doc = xmlNewDoc ("1.0");
+  doc->root = xmlNewDocNode (doc, NULL, "Properties", NULL);
+
+  _gst_type_initialize ();
+
+  sinkprops = gst_props_register (mpeg2dec_sink_props);
+  parent = xmlNewChild (doc->root, NULL, "Props1", NULL);
+  gst_props_save_thyself (sinkprops, parent);
+
+  rawprops  = gst_props_register (mpeg2dec_src_props);
+  parent = xmlNewChild (doc->root, NULL, "Props2", NULL);
+  gst_props_save_thyself (rawprops, parent);
+
+  i=argc;
+
+  testprops  = gst_props_new ("layer", GST_PROPS_INT (i), 
+		              "bitrate", GST_PROPS_INT_RANGE (i*300, i*10000),
+			      NULL);
+  if (i==3) {
+    testprops  = gst_props_merge (testprops,
+		      gst_props_new ("framed", GST_PROPS_BOOLEAN (TRUE), 
+			             NULL));
+  }
+
+  parent = xmlNewChild (doc->root, NULL, "Props3", NULL);
+  gst_props_save_thyself (testprops, parent);
+
+  xmlDocDump(stdout, doc);
+
+  return 0;
+}