diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f967b2c..72d8210 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ Authors@R: c(
 Imports:
     httr,
     jsonlite,
+    magrittr,
+    readr,
     stats,
     utils,
     xml2
diff --git a/inst/manifest-testing.csv b/inst/manifest-testing.csv
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb20d64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inst/manifest-testing.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+"subdataverse","file_name","size_bytes","location_expected","compare_cells","md5"
+"rosters","roster-bulls-1996.tab",4200,"rawgithub.com/qqqq","T",
+"open-source-at-harvard","data/2019-05-25.tsv",2300,,"T",
+"open-source-at-harvard","run.sh",1023,,"F",
diff --git a/inst/roster-bulls-1996.csv b/inst/rosters/roster-bulls-1996.csv
similarity index 100%
rename from inst/roster-bulls-1996.csv
rename to inst/rosters/roster-bulls-1996.csv
diff --git a/tests/testthat/utils-manifest.R b/tests/testthat/utils-manifest.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2943ad3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/utils-manifest.R
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+retrieve_manifest <- function ( ) {
+  # Refresh col_types with: OuhscMunge::readr_spec_aligned(path)
+  path  <- system.file("manifest-testing.csv", package = "dataverse")
+  col_types <- readr::cols_only(
+    `subdataverse`        = readr::col_character(),
+    `file_name`           = readr::col_character(),
+    `size_bytes`          = readr::col_integer(),
+    `location_expected`   = readr::col_character(),
+    `compare_cells`       = readr::col_logical(),
+    `md5`                 = readr::col_character()
+  )
+  d <- readr::read_csv(path, col_types = col_types)
+
+  d
+}
+# retrieve_manifest()
+# checkmate::assert_fi
+
+retrieve_file_expected <- function (subdataverse, file_name) {
+  path <-
+    file.path(subdataverse, file_name) %>%
+    system.file(package = "dataverse")
+
+  if (!file.exists(path)) {
+    stop(
+      "The testing file `",
+      file_name,
+      "` in the (sub)datavserse `",
+      subdataverse,
+      "` is not found.  Please verify that the manifest is synced with the collection of test files. "
+    )
+  }
+
+  readr::read_file(path)
+}
+# retrieve_file_expected("rosters", "roster-bulls-1996.csv")
+
+
+# compare_data_frame <- function (d_actual, d_expected) {
+#
+#   # Compare cell contents
+#   testthat::expect_equal(d_actual, d_expected)
+# }