diff --git a/docs/examples/test-app/application.yaml b/docs/examples/test-app/application.yaml
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+apiVersion: app.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: "test-application-01"
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+spec:
+  type: "test"
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+  componentKinds:
+  - group: apps
+    kind: Deployment
+  - group: batch
+    kind: Job
+  - group: v1
+    kind: Service
+  - group: v1
+    kind: ConfigMap
+  - group: test.crd.com
+    kind: TestCRD
+  addOwnerRef: true
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: test-hello
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: "hello-world"
+    app.kubernetes.io/tier: "backend"
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+      app.kubernetes.io/component: "hello-world"
+      app.kubernetes.io/tier: "backend"
+  replicas: 1
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+        app.kubernetes.io/component: "hello-world"
+        app.kubernetes.io/tier: "backend"
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - image: gcr.io/google-samples/node-hello:1.0
+        name: hello-world
+        ports:
+        - containerPort: 8080
+          protocol: TCP
+---
+apiVersion: batch/v1
+kind: Job
+metadata:
+  name: pi
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+spec:
+  template:
+    spec:
+      containers:
+      - name: pi
+        image: perl
+        command: ["perl",  "-Mbignum=bpi", "-wle", "print bpi(2000)"]
+      restartPolicy: Never
+  backoffLimit: 4
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: test-webserver-svc
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+    app.kubernetes.io/version: "3"
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: "test-svc"
+    app.kubernetes.io/tier: "frontend"
+spec:
+  ports:
+  - port: 80
+  selector:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: "test-webserver"
+  type: LoadBalancer
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: test-configmap
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+data:
+  data-1: value-1
+  data-2: value-2
+---
+apiVersion: test.crd.com/v1
+kind: TestCRD
+metadata:
+  name: testcrd-sample
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+spec:
+  foo: bar
+---
+apiVersion: test.crd.com/v1
+kind: TestCRD
+metadata:
+  name: testcrd-sample-2
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+spec:
+  foo: bar
+---
+apiVersion: test.crd.com/v1
+kind: TestCRD
+metadata:
+  name: testcrd-sample-3
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: "test-01"
+spec:
+  foo: bar
diff --git a/docs/examples/test-app/deploy.sh b/docs/examples/test-app/deploy.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Copyright 2020 The Kubernetes Authors.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+source ../../../hack/tools/common.sh
+
+# Cleanup on exit
+function cleanup() {
+  header_text "Cleanup"
+  #  kubectl delete -f application.yaml
+  #  kubectl delete -f test_crd.yaml
+  #  make undeploy
+}
+
+# Check if component's ownerReferences is not found
+function ownerReferencesNotFound() {
+  if [[ "$1" == *"kind: Application"* ]] && [[ "$1" == *"name: test-application-01"* ]]; then
+    echo "$2 ownerReferences updated"
+    return 1
+  else
+    echo "$2 ownerReferences was not updated"
+    return 0
+  fi
+}
+
+header_text "Runn test on a Kubernetes cluster"
+
+header_text "Deploy the application CRD with the controller"
+#make deploy
+
+header_text "Install the test CRD"
+crd_output=$(kubectl apply -f test_crd.yaml)
+if [ "$crd_output" != "customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/testcrds.test.crd.com created" ] &&
+  [ "$crd_output" != "customresourcedefinition.apiextensions.k8s.io/testcrds.test.crd.com configured" ]; then
+  echo "failed to install test CRD"
+  echo "$crd_output"
+  cleanup
+  exit 1
+else
+  echo "$crd_output"
+fi
+
+header_text "Create the application object with all compoents"
+app_output=$(kubectl apply -f application.yaml)
+if [[ "$app_output" != *"application.app.k8s.io/test-application-01 created"* ]] &&
+  [[ "$app_output" != *"application.app.k8s.io/test-application-01 configured"* ]] &&
+  [[ "$app_output" != *"application.app.k8s.io/test-application-01 unchanged"* ]]; then
+  echo "failed to install application"
+  echo "$app_output"
+  cleanup
+  exit 1
+else
+  echo "$app_output"
+fi
+
+header_text "Verify application's status/components shows all components"
+# Timeout waiting after 150 seconds
+total=150
+counter=$total
+updated=false
+while [ $counter -gt 0 ]; do
+  app=$(kubectl get application test-application-01 -o yaml)
+  if [[ "$app" == *"/apis/apps/v1/namespaces/default/deployments/test-hello"* ]] &&
+    [[ "$app" == *"/apis/batch/v1/namespaces/default/jobs/pi"* ]] &&
+    [[ "$app" == *"/api/v1/namespaces/default/services/test-webserver-svc"* ]] &&
+    [[ "$app" == *"/api/v1/namespaces/default/configmaps/test-configmap"* ]] &&
+    [[ "$app" == *"/apis/test.crd.com/v1/namespaces/default/testcrds/testcrd-sample"* ]] &&
+    [[ "$app" == *"/apis/test.crd.com/v1/namespaces/default/testcrds/testcrd-sample-2"* ]]; then
+    echo "All components are appended to application status"
+    counter=0
+    updated=true
+  else
+    echo "Still waiting for controller to reconcile... ($counter/$total)"
+    sleep 1
+    ((counter--))
+  fi
+done
+
+if [ "$updated" == "false" ]; then
+  echo "Timeout waiting for application status to be updated"
+  cleanup
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+header_text "Verify the application is added to all components' ownerReferences"
+if ownerReferencesNotFound "$(kubectl get deployment test-hello -o yaml)" "deployment/test-hello" ||
+  ownerReferencesNotFound "$(kubectl get job pi -o yaml)" "job/pi" ||
+  ownerReferencesNotFound "$(kubectl get service test-webserver-svc -o yaml)" "service/test-webserver-svc" ||
+  ownerReferencesNotFound "$(kubectl get configmap test-configmap -o yaml)" "configmap/test-configmap" ||
+  ownerReferencesNotFound "$(kubectl get testcrd testcrd-sample -o yaml)" "testcrd/testcrd-sample" ||
+  ownerReferencesNotFound "$(kubectl get testcrd testcrd-sample-2 -o yaml)" "testcrd/testcrd-sample-2"; then
+  cleanup
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+trap cleanup EXIT
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diff --git a/docs/examples/test-app/test_crd.yaml b/docs/examples/test-app/test_crd.yaml
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+
+---
+apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1
+kind: CustomResourceDefinition
+metadata:
+  annotations:
+    controller-gen.kubebuilder.io/version: v0.2.4
+  creationTimestamp: null
+  name: testcrds.test.crd.com
+spec:
+  group: test.crd.com
+  names:
+    kind: TestCRD
+    listKind: TestCRDList
+    plural: testcrds
+    singular: testcrd
+  scope: Namespaced
+  validation:
+    openAPIV3Schema:
+      description: TestCRD is the Schema for the testcrds API
+      properties:
+        apiVersion:
+          description: 'APIVersion defines the versioned schema of this representation
+            of an object. Servers should convert recognized schemas to the latest
+            internal value, and may reject unrecognized values. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#resources'
+          type: string
+        kind:
+          description: 'Kind is a string value representing the REST resource this
+            object represents. Servers may infer this from the endpoint the client
+            submits requests to. Cannot be updated. In CamelCase. More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#types-kinds'
+          type: string
+        metadata:
+          type: object
+        spec:
+          description: TestCRDSpec defines the desired state of TestCRD
+          properties:
+            foo:
+              description: Foo is an example field of TestCRD. Edit TestCRD_types.go
+                to remove/update
+              type: string
+          type: object
+        status:
+          description: TestCRDStatus defines the observed state of TestCRD
+          type: object
+      type: object
+  version: v1
+  versions:
+  - name: v1
+    served: true
+    storage: true
+status:
+  acceptedNames:
+    kind: ""
+    plural: ""
+  conditions: []
+  storedVersions: []