diff --git a/tests/test-parsing/parse.py b/tests/test-parsing/parse.py
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+++ b/tests/test-parsing/parse.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+import sys
+
+from specfile import Specfile
+
+# this is dump, but do the work
+filename = sys.argv[1]
+print("Parsing {}".format(filename))
+specfile = Specfile(filename, force_parse=True)
diff --git a/tests/test-parsing/run.sh b/tests/test-parsing/run.sh
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+++ b/tests/test-parsing/run.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/bash
+#rm -rf /tmp/rpm-specs/*
+
+#curl https://src.fedoraproject.org/lookaside/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz > /tmp/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz
+tar axf /tmp/rpm-specs-latest.tar.xz --directory /tmp
+for spec in /tmp/rpm-specs/*.spec; do
+        parse.py "$spec" || echo "Error parsing $(basename $spec)" >&2
+done | pv -ls $(ls /tmp/rpm-specs/*.spec | wc -l) >/dev/null