new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ 
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -eux
+cd tests
+for t in test1 test2 test4
+do
+    echo "Running $t.test..."
+    if "./$t.test"
+    then
+        echo "PASS:$t"
+    else
+        echo "FAIL:$t"
+    fi
+done
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@  HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=de54b60fbbc35123ba193fea8ee216f2"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/${BP}.tar.gz"
-
+SRC_URI = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/${BP}.tar.gz \
+           file://run-ptest \
+           "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b8d80a1ddb718b3ba7492916237bbf86609e9709fb007e7f7d4322f02341a4c6"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_URI = "https://github.com/${BPN}/${BPN}/tags"
@@ -13,6 +14,20 @@  UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "json-c-(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)-\d+"
 
 RPROVIDES:${PN} = "libjson"
 
-inherit cmake
+inherit cmake ptest
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += "bash"
+
+do_compile_ptest() {
+        oe_runmake -C tests test1 test2 test4
+}
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    mkdir "${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests"
+    for t in test1 test2 test4; do
+        cp "${S}/tests/$t"* "${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/"
+    done
+    cp "${S}/tests/test-defs.sh" "${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/"
+}