diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5034218..ced473c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 xml-simple-1.0.12.gem
 /xml-simple-1.1.2.gem
 /xml-simple-1.1.5.gem
+/xml-simple-tests.tar.gz
diff --git a/rubygem-xml-simple.spec b/rubygem-xml-simple.spec
index cd9e872..f08a8da 100644
--- a/rubygem-xml-simple.spec
+++ b/rubygem-xml-simple.spec
@@ -2,15 +2,21 @@
 
 Name: rubygem-%{gem_name}
 Version: 1.1.5
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 Summary: A simple API for XML processing
 Group: Development/Languages
 License: Ruby
 URL: https://github.com/maik/xml-simple
 Source0: https://rubygems.org/gems/%{gem_name}-%{version}.gem
+# git clone https://github.com/maik/xml-simple.git
+# cd xml-simple; tar -czf xml-simple-tests.tar.gz test
+Source1: %{gem_name}-tests.tar.gz
 BuildRequires: ruby(release)
 BuildRequires: rubygems-devel
 BuildRequires: ruby
+# tests
+BuildRequires: rubygem(test-unit)
+
 BuildArch: noarch
 
 %description
@@ -46,6 +52,11 @@ cp -a .%{gem_dir}/* \
 %check
 pushd .%{gem_instdir}
 
+tar -xzf %{SOURCE1}
+# passing nil to xml_in makes it search for the ruby script being run
+ruby -Ilib test/tc_perl_in.rb
+rm test/tc_perl_in.rb
+ruby -Ilib -e 'Dir.glob "./test/*.rb", &method(:require)'
 popd
 
 %files
@@ -58,6 +69,10 @@ popd
 %doc %{gem_docdir}
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Feb 04 2017 Athos Ribeiro <athoscr@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.5-2
+- Run test suite
+- Fix bogus date in spec file
+
 * Sat Feb 04 2017 Athos Ribeiro <athoscr@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.5-1
 - Update version
 
@@ -97,7 +112,7 @@ popd
 * Wed Feb 09 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.12-4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
 
-* Tue Apr 30 2010 Michal Fojtik <mfojtik@redhat.com> - 1.0.12-3
+* Fri Apr 30 2010 Michal Fojtik <mfojtik@redhat.com> - 1.0.12-3
 - Removed buildroot
 - Fixed emails and changelog formatting
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 996cca2..31f7724 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 SHA512 (xml-simple-1.1.5.gem) = 30b8e9541d4047181df34f3558235aa2058f8fda26220a90bc811b3f438130a69d06c72b52ba4fe5caadf779195d3bf772253bdb70db5df238f5117c7362e97f
+SHA512 (xml-simple-tests.tar.gz) = d70352ca4e962ae97fb38f9d426e79f2db6e7623620a740570e0f2e83db2e53177d44dbc3ac437b09aef9cccee63d79d1d668ca94cba7ef0c4c23ec61e154d82