diff --git a/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc b/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
index 09b1dbb3e1..25db9fe5cc 100644
--- a/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST_META_OE = "\
     xmlsec1 \
     zeromq \
     cjson \
+    libplist \
 "
 PTESTS_FAST_META_OE:append:x86 = " mcelog"
 PTESTS_FAST_META_OE:append:x86-64 = " mcelog"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed940af5f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+for t in `ls test/*.test`; do
+	top_srcdir=$(pwd)/input top_builddir=$(pwd)/test ./$t && echo PASS: $t || echo FAIL: $t
+	rm $(pwd)/test/test/data/* 2>/dev/null
+done
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.6.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.6.0.bb
index 7f01962a97..1dfe895d23 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.6.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_2.6.0.bb
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07 \
 
 DEPENDS = "libxml2 glib-2.0 swig python3"
 
-inherit autotools pkgconfig python3native python3targetconfig
+inherit autotools pkgconfig python3native python3targetconfig ptest
 
 SRCREV = "2117b8fdb6b4096455bd2041a63e59a028120136"
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist;protocol=https;branch=master"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist;protocol=https;branch=master \
+           file://run-ptest \
+"
 
 
 CVE_STATUS_GROUPS += "CVE_STATUS_LIBLIST"
@@ -30,6 +32,28 @@ do_install:append () {
     fi
 }
 
+do_install_ptest(){
+    # tests expect a particular directory structure for input and output
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/input/test/data
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/tools
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/test/.libs
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/test/data
+    install ${S}/test/data/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/input/test/data/
+    install ${S}/test/*.test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/
+    install -m 0755 ${B}/test/.libs/plist* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/test/.libs/
+    install -m 0755 ${B}/test/.libs/integer_set_test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/test/
+    for t in $(find ${B}/test -type f -name 'plist*' \! -name '*.o'); do
+        install -m 0755 $t ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/test/
+    done
+    for t in $(find ${B}/tools -type f -name 'plist*' \! -name '*.o'); do
+        install -m 0755 $t ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/tools/
+    done
+    sed -i 's@LD_LIBRARY_PATH="[^"]*:@LD_LIBRARY_PATH="@g' \
+        ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/test/plist_cmp
+    sed -i 's@LD_LIBRARY_PATH="[^"]*:@LD_LIBRARY_PATH="@g' \
+        ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/test/plist_test
+}
+
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-utils \
              ${PN}++ \
              ${PN}-python"
@@ -38,3 +62,5 @@ FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}/libplist-2.0${SOLIBS}"
 FILES:${PN}++ = "${libdir}/libplist++-2.0${SOLIBS}"
 FILES:${PN}-utils = "${bindir}/*"
 FILES:${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/*"
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "bash"