diff --git a/lite/Changes b/lite/Changes
index 03c57d6..9747ca5 100644
--- a/lite/Changes
+++ b/lite/Changes
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 05/07/2018
     - Added support for unrestricted corpus statistics (ndiewald)
     - Do not pass broken queries to Krill (diewald)
+27/08/2018
+    - Added vc reference test (margaretha)
 
 version 0.60.1
 12/06/2018
diff --git a/lite/pom.xml b/lite/pom.xml
index 103a225..36996fe 100644
--- a/lite/pom.xml
+++ b/lite/pom.xml
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@
 					<forkCount>2</forkCount>
 					<threadCount>4</threadCount>
 					<argLine>-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
-					<includes>
-						<include>de/ids_mannheim/korap/**/*.java</include>
-					</includes>
+					<excludes>
+						<exclude>**/VCReferenceTest.java</exclude>>
+					</excludes>
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 			<plugin>
diff --git a/lite/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/VCReferenceTest.java b/lite/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/VCReferenceTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6de7432
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lite/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/VCReferenceTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+package de.ids_mannheim.korap.web.service;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.ServerSocket;
+import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse;
+import com.sun.jersey.spi.spring.container.servlet.SpringServlet;
+import com.sun.jersey.test.framework.AppDescriptor;
+import com.sun.jersey.test.framework.JerseyTest;
+import com.sun.jersey.test.framework.WebAppDescriptor;
+import com.sun.jersey.test.framework.spi.container.TestContainerException;
+import com.sun.jersey.test.framework.spi.container.TestContainerFactory;
+import com.sun.jersey.test.framework.spi.container.grizzly.web.GrizzlyWebTestContainerFactory;
+
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.exceptions.KustvaktException;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.utils.JsonUtils;
+
+public class VCReferenceTest extends JerseyTest{
+
+    public static final String classPackage = "de.ids_mannheim.korap.web.service.light";
+    
+    @Override
+    protected TestContainerFactory getTestContainerFactory ()
+            throws TestContainerException {
+        return new GrizzlyWebTestContainerFactory();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected AppDescriptor configure () {
+        return new WebAppDescriptor.Builder(classPackage)
+                .servletClass(SpringServlet.class)
+                .contextListenerClass(ContextLoaderListener.class)
+                .contextParam("contextConfigLocation",
+                        "classpath:lite-config.xml")
+                .build();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected int getPort (int defaultPort) {
+        int port = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextInt(5000, 8000 + 1);
+        try {
+            ServerSocket socket = new ServerSocket(port);
+            socket.close();
+        }
+        catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            port = getPort(port);
+        }
+        return port;
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testSearchWithVCRef () throws KustvaktException {
+        ClientResponse response = resource().path("search")
+                .queryParam("q", "[orth=der]").queryParam("ql", "poliqarp")
+                .queryParam("cq", "referTo named-vc1")
+                .get(ClientResponse.class);
+
+        String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
+        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches").size() > 0);
+
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testStatisticsWithVCReference () throws KustvaktException {
+        String corpusQuery = "referTo named-vc1";
+        ClientResponse response = resource().path("statistics")
+                .queryParam("corpusQuery", corpusQuery)
+                .get(ClientResponse.class);
+
+        String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
+        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+        assertEquals(2, node.at("/documents").asInt());
+    }
+}