diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser.java
index 33d36b6f..2f0909ff 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser.java
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ import org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.ParserContext;
 import org.w3c.dom.Element;
 
 /**
- * The AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser class...
+ * The AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser class is a Spring BeanDefinitionParser that registers a BeanPostProcessor
+ * that auto registers Regions defined in GemFire's native cache.xml format, or when using GemFire 8's cluster-based
+ * configuration service to define Regions, creating corresponding beans in the Spring context.
  *
  * @author John Blum
  * @see org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition
@@ -33,10 +35,11 @@ import org.w3c.dom.Element;
  * @see org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionBuilder
  * @see org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.BeanDefinitionParser
  * @see org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.ParserContext
+ * @see org.springframework.data.gemfire.config.AutoRegionLookupBeanPostProcessor
  * @see org.w3c.dom.Element
  * @since 1.5.0
  */
-public class AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser implements BeanDefinitionParser {
+class AutoRegionLookupBeanDefinitionParser implements BeanDefinitionParser {
 
 	@Override
 	public BeanDefinition parse(final Element element, final ParserContext parserContext) {
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanPostProcessor.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanPostProcessor.java
index 4fc5f785..7865a4cc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanPostProcessor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/config/AutoRegionLookupBeanPostProcessor.java
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ import com.gemstone.gemfire.cache.Region;
 /**
  * The AutoRegionLookupBeanPostProcessor class is a Spring BeanPostProcessor that post processes a GemFireCache by
  * registering all Cache Regions that have not been explicitly defined in the Spring application context.  This is
- * usually the case for Regions that have been defined in GemFire native cache.xml or defined use GemFire 8's new
+ * usually the case for Regions that have been defined in GemFire's native cache.xml or defined use GemFire 8's new
  * cluster-based configuration service.
  *
  * @author John Blum
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..276d8c68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/gemfire/AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2010-2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * 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.springframework.data.gemfire;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
+
+/**
+ * The AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests class is a test suite of test cases testing the contract and functionality
+ * of Spring Data GemFire's new auto Region lookup feature.
+ *
+ * @author John Blum
+ * @see org.junit.Test
+ * @see org.junit.runner.RunWith
+ * @see org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration
+ * @see org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner
+ * @since 1.5.0
+ */
+@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
+@ContextConfiguration
+@SuppressWarnings("unused")
+public class AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests {
+
+	@Autowired
+	private ApplicationContext applicationContext;
+
+	@Test
+	public void testAutoRegionLookup() {
+		assertTrue(applicationContext.containsBean("SpringPartitionedRegion"));
+		assertTrue(applicationContext.containsBean("SpringReplicateParent"));
+		assertTrue(applicationContext.containsBean("/SpringReplicateParent/SpringReplicateChild"));
+		assertTrue(applicationContext.containsBean("NativePartitionedRegion"));
+		assertTrue(applicationContext.containsBean("NativeReplicateParent"));
+		assertTrue(applicationContext.containsBean("/NativeReplicateParent/NativeReplicateChild"));
+		assertTrue(applicationContext.containsBean("/NativeReplicateParent/NativeReplicateChild/NativeReplicateGrandchild"));
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/src/test/resources/autoregionlookup-cache.xml b/src/test/resources/autoregionlookup-cache.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..45736335
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/autoregionlookup-cache.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE cache PUBLIC  "-//GemStone Systems, Inc.//GemFire Declarative Caching 7.0//EN"
+	"http://www.gemstone.com/dtd/cache8_0.dtd">
+<cache>
+	<region name="NativePartitionedRegion" refid="PARTITION"/>
+
+	<region name="NativeReplicateParent" refid="REPLICATE">
+		<region name="NativeReplicateChild" refid="REPLICATE">
+			<region name="NativeReplicateGrandchild" refid="REPLICATE"/>
+		</region>
+	</region>
+</cache>
diff --git a/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests-context.xml b/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests-context.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cb652e12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/org/springframework/data/gemfire/AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests-context.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
+	   xmlns:gfe="http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire"
+	   xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
+	   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	   xsi:schemaLocation="
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire http://www.springframework.org/schema/gemfire/spring-gemfire.xsd
+        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util.xsd
+">
+
+	<util:properties id="gemfireProperties">
+		<prop key="name">AutoRegionLookupIntegrationTests</prop>
+		<prop key="mcast-port">0</prop>
+		<prop key="log-level">warning</prop>
+	</util:properties>
+
+	<gfe:cache properties-ref="gemfireProperties" cache-xml-location="/autoregionlookup-cache.xml"/>
+
+	<gfe:partitioned-region id="SpringPartitionedRegion" persistent="false"/>
+
+	<gfe:replicated-region id="SpringReplicateParent" persistent="false">
+		<gfe:replicated-region name="SpringReplicateChild" persistent="false"/>
+	</gfe:replicated-region>
+
+	<gfe:auto-region-lookup/>
+
+</beans>