diff --git a/src/mycompiler/MyCompiler.java b/src/mycompiler/MyCompiler.java
index a40d0554..7d511bb4 100755
--- a/src/mycompiler/MyCompiler.java
+++ b/src/mycompiler/MyCompiler.java
@@ -483,14 +483,16 @@ public class MyCompiler implements MyCompilerAPI
      */
     // ino.end
     // ino.method.parse.21298.definition 
-    public void parse(File file)
+    public SourceFile parse(File file)
     throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, JavaParser.yyException
     // ino.end
     // ino.method.parse.21298.body 
     {
         FileReader fr = new FileReader(file);
-        this.m_AbstractSyntaxTree.add(this.parse2SyntaxTree(fr));
+        SourceFile ret = this.parse2SyntaxTree(fr);
+        this.m_AbstractSyntaxTree.add(ret);
         fr.close();
+        return ret;
     }
     // ino.end
    
diff --git a/src/mycompiler/MyCompilerAPI.java b/src/mycompiler/MyCompilerAPI.java
index 9120cb74..e71ba8e8 100755
--- a/src/mycompiler/MyCompilerAPI.java
+++ b/src/mycompiler/MyCompilerAPI.java
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public interface MyCompilerAPI
      */
     // ino.end
     // ino.method.parse.21334.declaration 
-    public void parse(File file)
+    public SourceFile parse(File file)
     throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, JavaParser.yyException;
     // ino.end
 
diff --git a/src/mycompiler/SyntaxTreeNode.java b/src/mycompiler/SyntaxTreeNode.java
index cc8f4d6d..f085ce07 100644
--- a/src/mycompiler/SyntaxTreeNode.java
+++ b/src/mycompiler/SyntaxTreeNode.java
@@ -41,4 +41,13 @@ public abstract class SyntaxTreeNode {
 	public String getDescription(){
 		return this.toString();
 	}
+	
+	@Override
+	public boolean equals(Object object){
+		if(!(object instanceof SyntaxTreeNode))return false;
+		SyntaxTreeNode equal = (SyntaxTreeNode)object;
+		if(!equal.getDescription().equals(this.getDescription()))return false;
+		if(!this.getParent().equals(equal.getParent()))return false; //auch das Elternelement überprüfen.
+		return true;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/test/syntaxTree/NodeEqualTest.java b/test/syntaxTree/NodeEqualTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e79a4234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/syntaxTree/NodeEqualTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package syntaxTree;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import mycompiler.MyCompiler;
+import mycompiler.MyCompilerAPI;
+import mycompiler.SourceFile;
+import mycompiler.SyntaxTreeNode;
+import mycompiler.myparser.JavaParser.yyException;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import junit.framework.TestCase;
+
+public class NodeEqualTest extends TestCase{
+	private static final String rootDirectory = System.getProperty("user.dir")+"/test/plugindevelopment/";
+	private static final String testFile = "";
+	@Test
+	public void test(){
+		String inferedSource = "";
+		MyCompilerAPI compiler = MyCompiler.getAPI();
+		SourceFile tree = null;
+		try {
+			tree = compiler.parse(new File(rootDirectory + testFile));
+		} catch (IOException | yyException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			fail();
+		}
+		
+	}
+	
+	private void recursivlyCheckEqual(SyntaxTreeNode node1, SyntaxTreeNode node2){
+		for(SyntaxTreeNode n1 : node1.getChildren()){
+			int matches = 0;
+			for(SyntaxTreeNode n2 : node2.getChildren()){
+				if(n2.equals(n1)){
+					matches++;
+					this.recursivlyCheckEqual(n1, n2);
+				}
+			}
+			assertTrue("Nur eines der Children darf gleich sein", matches == 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	
+	
+}