diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdatetime/run-ptest b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdatetime/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d2017d39c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdatetime/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+pytest --automake
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdatetime_5.3.0.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdatetime_5.3.0.bb
index 9275736eb3..90dacb8d5e 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdatetime_5.3.0.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdatetime_5.3.0.bb
@@ -3,9 +3,15 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/slashmili/python-jalali"
 LICENSE = "Python-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=c80be45b33471b4a23cf53d06a8172be"
 
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d20eb9fc2a00e86493a6156b2a0e4e579f23379e8fea186a0e603fd36a130227"
+# The PyPI package omits some files for testing like tests/__init__.py
+# so use the GitHub source instead.
+SRCREV = "ea119aab729d4c48f797f3663a692680c93fb9f5"
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://github.com/slashmili/jdatetime;branch=main;protocol=https \
+    file://run-ptest \
+"
 
-inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta
+inherit python_setuptools_build_meta ptest
 
 CLEANBROKEN = "1"
 
@@ -14,3 +20,16 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
     python3-jalali-core \
 "
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
+    python3-pytest \
+    python3-core \
+    python3-pickle \
+    python3-unittest \
+    python3-zoneinfo \
+    python3-unittest-automake-output \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+    cp -rf ${S}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+}