diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8c67aee4982646c97dadf03c098b4f8067154bd0..09e155ff0b4f157ffb7c970e59ecb45edbad24b7 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -254,6 +254,8 @@ target_link_libraries           (tesseract libtesseract)
 
 if (EXISTS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/googletest/CMakeLists.txt)
     add_subdirectory(googletest)
+    add_executable(tesseract_tests tests/tesseracttests.cpp)
+    target_link_libraries(tesseract_tests gtest_main)
 endif()
 
 if (BUILD_TRAINING_TOOLS)
diff --git a/tests/tesseracttests.cpp b/tests/tesseracttests.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aa02069819a255850e0b9cdda34d2f130b0d750f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tesseracttests.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// File:        tesseracttests.cpp
+// Description: Tests for Tesseract.
+// Author:      Stefan Weil
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+#include "gtest/gtest.h"
+
+TEST(TesseractTest, FirstDummyTestForTesseract) {
+    ASSERT_TRUE(1);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+  ::testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
+  return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
+}