diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 772229670..121a7c7f6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ env:
   - TR_ARCH=aarch64
 script:
   - sudo make -C scripts/build $TR_ARCH
+  - sudo ./scripts/travis-tests $TR_ARCH
diff --git a/scripts/travis-tests b/scripts/travis-tests
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d764d2cb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/travis-tests
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -x -e
+
+test "$1" = "x86_64" || exit 0
+
+apt-get update -qq
+apt-get install -qq protobuf-c-compiler libprotobuf-c0-dev libaio-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler python-ipaddr libcap-dev libnl-3-dev
+chmod a+x $HOME
+make
+make -C test/zdtm
+python test/zdtm.py run -a -f h,ns