diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index dc1e3391..7eba3356 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -641,7 +641,11 @@
         <echo message=""/>
     </target>
 
-    <!-- TEST FRAME SPECIFICATION -->
+    <!-- INTEGRATION TESTS
+        The following test targets do not have corresponding source modules,
+        and are concerned with over-all behavior of the library.  They use
+        the concatenated-into-a-single-file version of env.js.
+      -->
     <target name='frame-spec'
             depends='local-settings'
             description='Test Frame Specs'>
@@ -659,6 +663,25 @@
         <echo message=""/>
     </target>
 
+    <target name='scope-spec'
+            depends='local-settings'
+            description='Test Scope Specs'>
+        <echo message=""/>
+        <echo message="Executing Scope Spec"/>
+        <java fork="true"
+              jar="${RHINO_JAR}"
+              failonerror="true">
+            <arg value="-opt"/>
+            <arg value="-1"/>
+            <arg value="${TEST_DIR}/scope/boot.js"/>
+            <jvmarg value="-Dfile.encoding=utf-8"/>
+            <jvmarg value="-Xmx256m"/>
+        </java>
+        <echo message=""/>
+    </target>
+
+
+
     <target description="jslint quick build - no parser!"
             name="jslint"
             depends="dom, event, timer, html, xhr, css, window">
@@ -704,7 +727,7 @@
             name="concat"
             depends="dom-spec, event-spec, timer-spec,
                      html-spec, parser-spec, xhr-spec,
-                     css-spec,  window-spec,  frame-spec">
+                     css-spec,  window-spec, scope-spec, frame-spec">
         <!-- CORE -->
         <echo message="Building ${ENV_DIST}" />
         <concat destfile="${ENV_DIST}">
diff --git a/specs/frame/index.html b/specs/frame/index.html
index 915fbf36..ba29717a 100644
--- a/specs/frame/index.html
+++ b/specs/frame/index.html
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         <script type="text/javascript">
             listOfTests = [
                 'console', 'dom', 'event', 'timer', 'html', 'parser',
-                'xhr', 'css', 'window' ];
+                'xhr', 'css', 'window', 'scope' ];
             window.allTestsAreBeingRunWithinAnExtraIFrame = true;
         </script>
         <script src="spec.js"
diff --git a/specs/scope/boot.js b/specs/scope/boot.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e84babdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specs/scope/boot.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+
+/**
+ * @author thatcher
+ */
+load('dist/env.rhino.js');
+
+load('specs/qunit.js');
+load('specs/env.qunit.js');
+load('specs/helpers.js');
+
+load('local_settings.js');
+// "load('specs/scope/spec.js');" is in the "index.html" file
+
+
+location = 'specs/scope/index.html';
diff --git a/specs/scope/index.html b/specs/scope/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86a518cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specs/scope/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+<?xml encoding='utf-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="eng" dir="ltr">
+    <head profile="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
+        <title>Envjs Scope Spec</title>
+
+        <link rel="stylesheet"
+              media="screen"
+              href="../qunit.css"/>
+
+        <script src="../qunit.js"
+                type="text/javascript" ></script>
+        <script src="../../local_settings.js"
+                type="text/javascript" ></script>
+
+        <script type="text/envjs">
+            // Running under Envjs, the above are loaded in 'boot.js' and
+            // executing them from here would be redundant/problematic.  Now
+            // that we're past, though, make sure the rest execute under
+            // both Envjs and browsers:
+            Envjs.scriptTypes['text/javascript'] = true;
+        </script>
+        <script src="spec.js"
+                type="text/javascript" ></script>
+
+    </head>
+    <body id="body">
+        <h1 id="qunit-header">
+            <img src="../fixtures/images/icon-green.png"/>
+             <span>Envjs Scope Spec</span>
+         </h1>
+        <h2  id="qunit-banner"></h2>
+        <h2  id="qunit-userAgent"></h2>
+        <div id='qunit-testrunner-toolbar'></div>
+        <div id='qunit-test-summary'>
+            <ol id='qunit-tests'></ol>
+        </div>
+
+        <div id="qunit-main" style="text-align: center;">
+
+        </div>
+    </body>
+</html>
diff --git a/specs/scope/spec.js b/specs/scope/spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e8155904
--- /dev/null
+++ b/specs/scope/spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+
+QUnit.module('scope');
+
+test("Initial place-holding do-nothing test", function(){
+    ok( true, 'True is true' );
+});
+
