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+/**
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 Cloud Conscious, LLC. <info@cloudconscious.com>
+ *
+ * ====================================================================
+ * 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 org.jclouds.gogrid;
+
+import com.google.common.io.Resources;
+import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+/**
+ * @author Adrian Cole
+ * @author Oleksiy Yarmula
+ */
+@Test(groups = "unit", testName = "compute.PropertiesTest")
+public class PropertiesTest {
+   private Properties properties;
+
+   @BeforeTest
+   public void setUp() throws IOException {
+      properties = new Properties();
+      properties.load(Resources.newInputStreamSupplier(Resources.getResource("compute.properties"))
+               .getInput());
+   }
+
+   public void testGoGrid() {
+      assertEquals(properties.getProperty("gogrid.contextbuilder"),
+               GoGridContextBuilder.class.getName());
+      assertEquals(properties.getProperty("gogrid.propertiesbuilder"),
+               GoGridPropertiesBuilder.class.getName());
+   }
+
+
+}