diff --git a/bin/backendTests.sh b/bin/backendTests.sh
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+src/node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha --timeout 5000 --reporter nyan tests/backend/specs
diff --git a/tests/backend/specs/api.js b/tests/backend/specs/api.js
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+var assert = require("assert")
+ supertest = require('supertest'),
+       api = supertest('http://localhost:9001');
+
+describe('Array', function(){
+  describe('#indexOf()', function(){
+    it('should return -1 when the value is not present', function(){
+      assert.equal(-1, [1,2,3].indexOf(5));
+      assert.equal(-1, [1,2,3].indexOf(0));
+    })
+  })
+})
+
+describe('Connectivity', function(){
+  it('errors if can not connect', function(done) {
+    api.get('/api/')
+    .expect(200, done)
+  });
+})
+
+
+
+/*
+describe('Authentication', function() {
+ 
+  it('errors if wrong basic auth', function(done) {
+    api.get('/blog')
+    .set('x-api-key', '123myapikey')
+    .auth('incorrect', 'credentials')
+    .expect(401, done)
+  });
+ 
+  it('errors if bad x-api-key header', function(done) {
+    api.get('/blog')
+    .auth('correct', 'credentials')
+    .expect(401)
+    .expect({error:"Bad or missing app identification header"}, done);
+  });
+ 
+}); 
+*/