diff --git a/notes/README.thread-groups b/notes/README.thread-groups
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6fef6af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/notes/README.thread-groups
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+
+-list-thread-groups
+
+    ^done,groups=[
+                    {
+                        id=\"i1\",
+                        type=\"process\",
+                        pid=\"19521\",
+                        executable=\"/home/erniep/Development/Peak/src/Apps/Explorer/explorer\",
+                        cores=[\"6\"]
+                    }
+                ]
+
+-list-thread-groups --recurse 1
+
+    ^done,groups=[
+                    {
+                        id=\"i1\",
+                        type=\"process\",
+                        pid=\"19521\",
+                        executable=\"/home/erniep/Development/Peak/src/Apps/Explorer/explorer\",
+                        cores=[\"6\"],
+                        threads=[
+                                    {
+                                        id=\"1\",
+                                        target-id=\"Thread 0x7ffff7f97940 (LWP 19521)\",
+                                        name=\"explorer\",
+                                        frame={level=\"0\",
+                                        addr=\"0x0000000000403a40\",
+                                        func=\"main\",
+                                        args=[
+                                                {
+                                                    name=\"argc\",
+                                                    value=\"2\"
+                                                },
+                                                {
+                                                    name=\"argv\",
+                                                    value=\"0x7fffffffd528\"
+                                                }
+                                             ],
+                                        file=\"explorer.cpp\",
+                                        fullname=\"/home/erniep/Development/Peak/src/Apps/Explorer/explorer.cpp\",
+                                        line=\"78\",
+                                        arch=\"i386:x86-64\"},
+                                        state=\"stopped\",
+                                        core=\"6\"
+                                    }
+                                ]
+                    }
+                 ]
+
diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
index 80069dc..81d271a 100644
--- a/tests/.gitignore
+++ b/tests/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ ui_*.h
 .objs
 .deps
 *.ini
+*.brk
diff --git a/tests/helloasm/.gitignore b/tests/helloasm/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ef57d41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/helloasm/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+helloasm
diff --git a/tests/helloasm/helloasm.asm b/tests/helloasm/helloasm.asm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dfe0199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/helloasm/helloasm.asm
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+
+section .text                   ;section declaration
+
+                                ;we must export the entry point to the ELF linker or
+    global  _start              ;loader. They conventionally recognize _start as their
+                                ;entry point. Use ld -e foo to override the default.
+
+_start:
+
+                                ;write our string to stdout
+
+    mov     edx,len             ;third argument: message length
+    mov     ecx,msg             ;second argument: pointer to message to write
+    mov     ebx,1               ;first argument: file handle (stdout)
+    mov     eax,4               ;system call number (sys_write)
+    int     0x80                ;call kernel
+
+                                ;and exit
+
+    mov     ebx,0               ;first syscall argument: exit code
+    mov     eax,1               ;system call number (sys_exit)
+    int     0x80                ;call kernel
+
+section .data                   ;section declaration
+
+msg db      "Hello, world!",0xa ;our dear string
+len equ     $ - msg             ;length of our dear string
+
diff --git a/tests/hellofork/.gitignore b/tests/hellofork/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8ddf12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/hellofork/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+hellofork