diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88e99d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+vendor
+composer.lock
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index aa20e71..13654ee 100755
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -11,12 +11,23 @@
 		{
 			"name": "Evseev Nikolay",
 			"email": "evseevnn@gmail.com"
+		},
+		{
+		  	"name": "Aleksandar Babic",
+		  	"email": "salebab@gmail.com"
 		}
 	],
 	"require": {
 		"php": ">=5.4.0"
 	},
+  	"require-dev": {
+		"phpunit/phpunit": "~4.4"
+	},
 	"autoload": {
 		"psr-4": { "Cassandra\\": "src/" }
+	},
+
+  	"autoload-dev" : {
+	  	"psr-4": { "Cassandra\\": "tests/"}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/phpunit.php b/phpunit.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39a1434
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpunit.php
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+<?php
+
+require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
+
+date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
diff --git a/phpunit.xml b/phpunit.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8330e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpunit.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<phpunit backupGlobals="false"
+         backupStaticAttributes="false"
+         bootstrap="phpunit.php"
+         colors="true"
+         convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
+         convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
+         convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
+         processIsolation="false"
+         stopOnFailure="false"
+         syntaxCheck="false">
+    <testsuites>
+        <testsuite name="all">
+            <directory>./tests/</directory>
+        </testsuite>
+    </testsuites>
+    <filter>
+        <whitelist addUncoveredFilesFromWhitelist="true">
+            <directory suffix=".php">src</directory>
+            <exclude>
+                <directory suffix=".php">vendor</directory>
+            </exclude>
+        </whitelist>
+    </filter>
+</phpunit>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Connection/Node.php b/src/Connection/Node.php
index aefdbe0..b09c0de 100644
--- a/src/Connection/Node.php
+++ b/src/Connection/Node.php
@@ -45,25 +45,20 @@ public function __construct($options) {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * 
+	 * Create connection and return socket resource
+	 *
 	 * @throws Exception
 	 * @return resource
 	 */
 	public function getConnection() {
-		if (!empty($this->socket)) return $this->socket;
 
-		$this->socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
-
-		if ($this->socket === false)
-			throw new Exception(socket_strerror(socket_last_error()));
-
-		socket_set_option($this->socket, getprotobyname('TCP'), TCP_NODELAY, 1);
-		
-		foreach($this->_options['socket'] as $optname => $optval)
-			socket_set_option($this->socket, SOL_SOCKET, $optname, $optval);
-		
-		if (!socket_connect($this->socket, $this->_options['host'], $this->_options['port']))
-			throw new Exception("Unable to connect to Cassandra node: {$this->_options['host']}:{$this->_options['port']}");
+		if(!$this->isConnected()) {
+			try {
+				$this->connect();
+			} catch(\Exception $e) {
+				throw new Exception("Unable to connect to Cassandra node: {$this->_options['host']}:{$this->_options['port']}. Reason: ". $e->getMessage(), 0, $e);
+			}
+		}
 
 		return $this->socket;
 	}
@@ -71,7 +66,85 @@ public function getConnection() {
 	/**
 	 * @return array
 	 */
-	public function getOptions() {
+	public function getOptions()
+	{
 		return $this->_options;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Connect to host/port
+	 *
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 */
+	public function connect()
+	{
+		$this->createConnection();
+		$this->setConnectionOptions();
+
+		$result = @socket_connect($this->socket, $this->_options['host'], $this->_options['port']);
+
+		if($result === false) {
+			throw new Exception("Unable to connect: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error($this->socket)));
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Disconnect
+	 */
+	public function disconnect()
+	{
+		if(is_resource($this->socket)) {
+			@socket_close($this->socket);
+		}
+
+		$this->socket = null;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @return bool
+	 */
+	public function isConnected()
+	{
+		return is_resource($this->socket);
+	}
+
+
+	/**
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 */
+	private function createConnection()
+	{
+		$this->socket = @socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
+
+		if($this->socket === false) {
+			throw new Exception("Unable to create socket: ". socket_strerror(socket_last_error()));
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 */
+	private function setConnectionOptions()
+	{
+		$this->setConnectionOption(getprotobyname('tcp'), TCP_NODELAY, 1);
+
+		foreach($this->_options['socket'] as $name => $value) {
+			$this->setConnectionOption(SOL_SOCKET, $name, $value);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @param int $level
+	 * @param int $name
+	 * @param mixed $value
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 */
+	private function setConnectionOption($level, $name, $value)
+	{
+		$result = @socket_set_option($this->socket, $level, $name, $value);
+
+		if($result === false) {
+			throw new Exception("Unable to set socket option: $level, $name");
+		}
+	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/Connection/NodeTest.php b/tests/Connection/NodeTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62ba0e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Connection/NodeTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+<?php namespace Cassandra\Connection;
+
+use Cassandra\Stubs\ListeningServerStub;
+use Cassandra\TestCase;
+
+class NodeTest extends TestCase {
+
+    /**
+     * @var ListeningServerStub
+     */
+    protected static $server;
+
+    public static function setUpBeforeClass()
+    {
+        self::$server = new ListeningServerStub();
+        self::$server->listen(19042);
+    }
+
+    public static function tearDownAfterClass()
+    {
+        self::$server->shutdown();
+    }
+
+    public function testNewInstance()
+    {
+        $node = new Node("localhost:19042");
+
+        $this->assertInstanceOf('Cassandra\Connection\Node', $node);
+
+        return $node;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param Node $node
+     * @depends testNewInstance
+     */
+    public function testIsConnected(Node $node)
+    {
+        $this->assertFalse($node->isConnected());
+
+        $node->connect();
+
+        $this->assertTrue($node->isConnected());
+    }
+
+
+    /**
+     * @depends testNewInstance
+     * @param Node $node
+     */
+    public function testGetOptions(Node $node)
+    {
+        $this->assertArrayHasKey("host", $node->getOptions());
+        $this->assertArrayHasKey("port", $node->getOptions());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @depends testNewInstance
+     * @param Node $node
+     */
+    public function testGetConnectionReturnsResource(Node $node)
+    {
+        $connection = $node->getConnection();
+
+        $this->assertTrue(is_resource($connection));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    public function testGetConnectionException()
+    {
+        $node = new Node("invalidhost:9042");
+
+        $this->setExpectedException('Cassandra\Connection\Exception', "invalidhost:9042");
+
+        $node->getConnection();
+        $node->disconnect();
+    }
+
+    public function testInvalidOptions()
+    {
+        $node = new Node([
+            'host' => 'localhost',
+            'port' => 19042,
+            'socket' => [
+                SO_RCVTIMEO => -1,
+            ]
+        ]);
+
+        $this->setExpectedException('Cassandra\Connection\Exception', "Unable to set socket option");
+
+        $node->connect();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     *
+     * @depends testNewInstance
+     * @param Node $node
+     */
+    public function testDisconnect(Node $node)
+    {
+        $node->disconnect();
+
+        $this->assertFalse($node->isConnected());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/Stubs/ListeningServerStub.php b/tests/Stubs/ListeningServerStub.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89fc2dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Stubs/ListeningServerStub.php
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+<?php  namespace Cassandra\Stubs;
+
+class ListeningServerStub
+{
+    protected $sock;
+
+    public function listen($port = 9042)
+    {
+        $this->sock = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
+
+        // Bind the socket to an address/port
+        if(!socket_bind($this->sock, 'localhost', $port)) {
+            throw new \RuntimeException('Could not bind to address');
+        }
+
+        socket_set_nonblock($this->sock);
+
+        // Start listening for connections
+        socket_listen($this->sock);
+    }
+
+
+    public function shutdown()
+    {
+        socket_shutdown($this->sock);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/tests/TestCase.php b/tests/TestCase.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6b28a89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/TestCase.php
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?php namespace Cassandra;
+
+class TestCase extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {
+
+
+}
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