diff --git a/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/NestedLoopIssue422Test.php b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/NestedLoopIssue422Test.php
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index 00000000..c541b3cb
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+++ b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/NestedLoopIssue422Test.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * Smarty PHPunit tests compiler errors
+ *
+ * @package PHPunit
+ * @author  Uwe Tews
+ */
+
+/**
+ * class for compiler tests
+ *
+ * @runTestsInSeparateProcess
+ * @preserveGlobalState    disabled
+ * @backupStaticAttributes enabled
+ *
+ * Problem with total property of {section} and {foreach} in nested loop
+ */
+class NestedLoopIssue422Test extends PHPUnit_Smarty
+{
+    public function setUp()
+    {
+        $this->setUpSmarty(dirname(__FILE__));
+    }
+
+    public function testInit()
+    {
+        $this->cleanDirs();
+    }
+
+    public function testnested422()
+    {
+         $this->assertEquals('loop: 1inner: 0loop: 2inner: 1', $this->smarty->fetch('422_test.tpl'));
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/cache/dummy.txt b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/cache/dummy.txt
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+++ b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/cache/dummy.txt
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+dummy
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/templates/422_test.tpl b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/templates/422_test.tpl
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+++ b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/templates/422_test.tpl
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+{strip}
+{assign var=samplearr value=[["list" => []],["list" => ["item"]]]}
+{foreach $samplearr as $v}
+    {section name=inner loop=$v.list}
+    {/section}
+    loop: {$v@iteration}
+    inner: {$smarty.section.inner.total}
+{/foreach}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/templates_c/dummy.txt b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/templates_c/dummy.txt
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+++ b/tests/UnitTests/TemplateSource/_Issues/422/templates_c/dummy.txt
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+dummy
\ No newline at end of file