diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/installer/transaction/RecoveryIT.java b/asterix-installer/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/installer/transaction/RecoveryIT.java
index c70b504..9e84e24 100644
--- a/asterix-installer/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/installer/transaction/RecoveryIT.java
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/java/org/apache/asterix/installer/transaction/RecoveryIT.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;
 
 import org.apache.asterix.test.aql.TestsUtils;
+import org.apache.asterix.test.runtime.HDFSCluster;
 import org.apache.asterix.testframework.context.TestCaseContext;
 
 @RunWith(Parameterized.class)
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@
     private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(RecoveryIT.class.getName());
     private static final String PATH_ACTUAL = "rttest/";
     private static final String PATH_BASE = "src/test/resources/transactionts/";
+    private static final String HDFS_BASE = "../asterix-app/";
     private TestCaseContext tcCtx;
     private static File asterixInstallerPath;
     private static File installerTargetPath;
@@ -79,6 +81,7 @@
                 + "configure_and_validate.sh");
         TestsUtils.executeScript(pb, scriptHomePath + File.separator + "setup_teardown" + File.separator
                 + "stop_and_delete.sh");
+        HDFSCluster.getInstance().setup(HDFS_BASE);
     }
 
     @AfterClass
@@ -92,6 +95,7 @@
                 + "stop_and_delete.sh");
         TestsUtils.executeScript(pb, scriptHomePath + File.separator + "setup_teardown" + File.separator
                 + "shutdown.sh");
+        HDFSCluster.getInstance().cleanup();
     }
 
     @Parameters
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.1.script.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.1.script.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc46136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.1.script.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+create_and_start.sh
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.2.ddl.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.2.ddl.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7aa1129
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.2.ddl.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+* Description  : Create an external dataset that contains records stored with text hdfs file format.
+                 Build an index over the external dataset age attribute
+                 Perform a query over the dataset using the index.
+* Expected Res : Success
+* Date         : 3rd Jan 2014
+*/
+drop dataverse test if exists;
+create dataverse test;
+
+use dataverse test;
+
+create type EmployeeType as closed {
+ id: int64,
+ name: string,
+ age: int64
+};
+
+create external dataset EmployeeDataset(EmployeeType)
+using hdfs
+(("hdfs"="hdfs://127.0.0.1:31888"),("path"="/asterix/external-indexing-test.txt"),("input-format"="text-input-format"),("format"="delimited-text"),("delimiter"="|"));
+
+create index EmployeeAgeIdx on EmployeeDataset(age);
+
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.3.script.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.3.script.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ba1dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.3.script.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+stop_and_start.sh
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.4.query.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.4.query.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..edfb290
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.4.query.aql
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+/*
+* Description  : Create an external dataset that contains records stored with text hdfs file format.
+                 Build an index over the external dataset age attribute
+                 Perform a query over the dataset using the index.
+* Expected Res : Success
+* Date         : 3rd Jan 2014
+*/
+use dataverse test;
+
+for $emp in dataset EmployeeDataset
+where $emp.age = 22
+order by $emp.id
+return $emp;
+
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.5.script.aql b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.5.script.aql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10e1a51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/queries/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.5.script.aql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+stop_and_delete.sh
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/results/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.1.adm b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/results/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.1.adm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36b836c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/results/query_after_restart/external_index/external_index.1.adm
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[ { "id": 3, "name": "Samuel", "age": 22 }
+, { "id": 10, "name": "David", "age": 22 }
+ ]
+
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/create_and_start.sh b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/create_and_start.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..945f01d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/create_and_start.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+$MANAGIX_HOME/bin/managix create -n nc1 -c $MANAGIX_HOME/clusters/local/local.xml;
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/stop_and_delete.sh b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/stop_and_delete.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d7deea3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/stop_and_delete.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+$MANAGIX_HOME/bin/managix stop -n nc1;
+$MANAGIX_HOME/bin/managix delete -n nc1;
+
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/stop_and_start.sh b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/stop_and_start.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1271a2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/scripts/query_after_restart/external_index/stop_and_start.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+$MANAGIX_HOME/bin/managix stop -n nc1;
+$MANAGIX_HOME/bin/managix start -n nc1;
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/testsuite.xml b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/testsuite.xml
index cf95132..e3774f8 100644
--- a/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/testsuite.xml
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/test/resources/transactionts/testsuite.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@
  !-->
 <test-suite xmlns="urn:xml.testframework.asterix.apache.org" ResultOffsetPath="results" QueryOffsetPath="queries" QueryFileExtension=".aql">
 
+  <test-group name="query_after_restart">
+      <test-case FilePath="query_after_restart">
+          <compilation-unit name="external_index">
+              <output-dir compare="Text">external_index</output-dir>
+          </compilation-unit>
+      </test-case>
+  </test-group>
   <test-group name="recover_after_abort">
 
     <test-case FilePath="recover_after_abort">