diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/csharp/default_args_runme.cs b/Examples/test-suite/csharp/default_args_runme.cs
index 427bf05bd..75a2d3535 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/csharp/default_args_runme.cs
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/csharp/default_args_runme.cs
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ public class runme
       if (default_args.constructorcall(new Klass()).val != -1)
         throw new Exception("constructorcall test 3 failed");
 
+      // const methods 
+      ConstMethods cm = new ConstMethods();
+      if (cm.coo() != 20)
+        throw new Exception("coo test 1 failed");
+      if (cm.coo(1.0) != 20)
+        throw new Exception("coo test 2 failed");
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/default_args.i b/Examples/test-suite/default_args.i
index c079a4bc1..cd891148a 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/default_args.i
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/default_args.i
@@ -180,6 +180,21 @@ Klass constructorcall(const Klass& k = Klass()) { return k; }
 }
 %}
 
+// const methods 
+// runtime test needed to check that the const method is called
+struct ConstMethods {
+  int coo(double d = 0.0) const;
+};
+
+%{
+struct ConstMethods {
+  int coo(double d = 0.0) { return 10; }
+  int coo(double d = 0.0) const { return 20; }
+};
+%}
+
+
+// Default args with C linkage
 %inline
 %{
   extern "C" double cfunc1(double x,double p = 1) {
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/java/default_args_runme.java b/Examples/test-suite/java/default_args_runme.java
index 85417cabc..45e2676d4 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/java/default_args_runme.java
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/java/default_args_runme.java
@@ -137,5 +137,11 @@ public class default_args_runme {
     if (default_args.constructorcall(new Klass()).getVal() != -1)
       throw new RuntimeException("constructorcall test 3 failed");
 
+    // const methods 
+    ConstMethods cm = new ConstMethods();
+    if (cm.coo() != 20)
+      throw new RuntimeException("coo test 1 failed");
+    if (cm.coo(1.0) != 20)
+      throw new RuntimeException("coo test 2 failed");
   }
 }
diff --git a/Examples/test-suite/perl5/default_args_runme.pl b/Examples/test-suite/perl5/default_args_runme.pl
index 31a7daa8f..c0fb7acad 100644
--- a/Examples/test-suite/perl5/default_args_runme.pl
+++ b/Examples/test-suite/perl5/default_args_runme.pl
@@ -147,3 +147,12 @@ if (default_args::constructorcall(new default_args::Klass())->{val} != -1) {
   die "constructorcall test 3 failed";
 }
 
+# const methods 
+$cm = new default_args::ConstMethods();
+if ($cm->coo() != 20) {
+  die "coo test 1 failed";
+}
+if ($cm->coo(1.0) != 20) {
+  die "coo test 2 failed";
+}
+