diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 15e0368..5efb808 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,6 +6,26 @@
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+## How do I use it?
+
+`pub_cache` lets you reflect on the information in your Pub cache. For example,
+to find all the applications that have been activated:
+
+```dart
+PubCache cache = new PubCache();
+for (Application app in cache.getGlobalApplications()) {
+  print('activated app: ${app.name}, version: ${app.version}');
+}
+```
+
+Some other interesting use cases:
+
+- finding all the activated applications whose defining package has a specific
+  meta-data file
+- given a package name, locate the directory on disk for that package, and
+  using that location to read resources contained in the package
+- finding the latest non-dev version of all the packages in the cache
+
 ## Features and bugs
 
 Please file feature requests and bugs at the [issue tracker][tracker].
diff --git a/lib/pub_cache.dart b/lib/pub_cache.dart
index 83755af..6407f04 100644
--- a/lib/pub_cache.dart
+++ b/lib/pub_cache.dart
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 
 /// A programmatic API for reflecting on Pub's cache directory.
 class PubCache {
-
   /// Return the location of Pub's package cache.
   static Directory getSystemCacheLocation() {
     Map env = Platform.environment;
diff --git a/test/pub_cache_test.dart b/test/pub_cache_test.dart
index b93c0ca..e84143d 100644
--- a/test/pub_cache_test.dart
+++ b/test/pub_cache_test.dart
@@ -135,18 +135,39 @@
   });
 
   group('integration', () {
-    test('list', () {
+    test('list apps', () {
+      StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
       PubCache cache = new PubCache();
       var apps = cache.getGlobalApplications();
-      print('${apps.length} activated applications:');
-      apps.forEach((app) => print('  ${app}'));
+      apps.forEach((app) => buf.writeln('  ${app}'));
+      expect(buf.toString(), isNotEmpty);
+    });
 
+    test('list packages', () {
+      StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
+      PubCache cache = new PubCache();
       var packages = cache.getCachedPackages();
-      print('\n${packages.length} packages in cache:');
+      packages.sort();
       packages.forEach((pkg) {
         List versions = cache.getAllPackageVersions(pkg);
-        print('  ${pkg} [${versions.map((p) => p.version.toString()).join(', ')}]');
+        buf.writeln(
+            '  ${pkg} [${versions.map((p) => p.version.toString()).join(', ')}]');
       });
+      expect(buf.toString(), isNotEmpty);
+    });
+
+    test('everything resolves', () {
+      PubCache cache = new PubCache();
+
+      for (Application app in cache.getGlobalApplications()) {
+        for (PackageRef ref in app.getPackageRefs()) {
+          expect(ref.resolve(), isNotNull);
+        }
+      }
+
+      for (PackageRef ref in cache.getPackageRefs()) {
+        expect(ref.resolve(), isNotNull);
+      }
     });
   });
 }