diff --git a/Parse-Netstat-Search/t/search.t b/Parse-Netstat-Search/t/search.t
index 4fc05c6..5942a0d 100644
--- a/Parse-Netstat-Search/t/search.t
+++ b/Parse-Netstat-Search/t/search.t
@@ -72,3 +72,22 @@ my $res=[ '0', '1',
 							],
 		   }
 		 ];
+
+# does a quick test to make sure we have the basics required for the following tests to work
+my $res_good=1;
+if (
+	( ref( $res ) ne 'ARRAY' ) ||
+	( ! defined( $res->[2] )  ) ||
+	( ! defined( $res->[2]->{active_conns} ) )
+	){
+	$res_good=0;
+}
+ok( $res_good eq '1', 'res test') or diag("Test data is bad");
+
+my $search=Parse::Netstat::Search->new;
+
+#return all non-unix connections
+my @found=$search->search($res);
+ok( $#found eq '5', 'search, all') or diag('"'.$#found.'" number of returned connections for a empty search instead of "5"');
+
+done_testing(3);