diff --git a/dev-python/pyalsaaudio/pyalsaaudio-0.8.2.ebuild b/dev-python/pyalsaaudio/pyalsaaudio-0.8.2.ebuild
index 74e394c49f63c..5470b7f46c427 100644
--- a/dev-python/pyalsaaudio/pyalsaaudio-0.8.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-python/pyalsaaudio/pyalsaaudio-0.8.2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=5
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ python_compile() {
 	distutils-r1_python_compile
 }
 
+python_test() {
+	"${PYTHON}" test.py -v || die "Tests fail with ${EPYTHON}"
+}
+
 python_install_all() {
 	use doc && local HTML_DOCS=( doc/html/. )
 	local EXAMPLES=( *test.py )