diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
index 34689fb48..d37383919 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-oe.bb
@@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-ptest-packages = "\
     libee-ptest \
     poco-ptest \
     cmocka-ptest \
+    minicoredumper-ptest \
 "
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-ptest-packages:append:x86 = " mcelog-ptest"
 RDEPENDS:packagegroup-meta-oe-ptest-packages:append:x86-64 = " mcelog-ptest"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/files/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/files/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fbddc0774
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/files/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo minicoredumper_demo
+echo expecting Segmentation fault with core dump ...
+
+minicoredumper_demo 6 & sleep 3 && minicoredumper_demo
+
+if ls /var/crash/ | grep minicoredumper; then
+	echo SUCCESS
+else
+	echo FAIL
+fi
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb
index 0b934ee2d..992de014f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/minicoredumper/minicoredumper_2.0.1.bb
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=71827c617ec7b45a0dd23658347cc1e9 \
                    "
 DEPENDS = "elfutils dbus dbus-glib-native glib-2.0 dbus-glib util-linux json-c"
 
-inherit autotools pkgconfig systemd update-rc.d
+inherit autotools pkgconfig ptest systemd update-rc.d
 
 SRCREV = "16a0d44f1725eaa93096eaa0e086f42ef4c2712c"
 
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ SRC_URI = "git://github.com/diamon/minicoredumper;protocol=https;branch=master \
            file://minicoredumper.service \
            file://minicoredumper.init \
            file://0001-minicoredumper-retry-elf-parsing-as-long-as-needed.patch \
+           file://run-ptest \
            "
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
@@ -29,6 +30,9 @@ INITSCRIPT_PACKAGES = "${PN}"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME:${PN} = "minicoredumper"
 INITSCRIPT_PARAMS:${PN} = "defaults 89"
 
+EXTRA_OECONF:append = " \
+    ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', '--with-minicoredumper_demo', '--without-libminicoredumper', d)} \
+"
 do_install:append() {
     rmdir ${D}${localstatedir}/run
     install -d ${D}/${sysconfdir}/minicoredumper