diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65767a37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+language: python
+
+python:
+  - "2.6"
+  - "2.7"
+
+# command to install dependencies
+install: pip install -r dev-requirements.txt
+
+before_script:
+  - "export DISPLAY=:99.0"
+  - "sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start"
+  - sleep 3 # give xvfb some time to start
+
+# command to run tests
+script: nosetests --with-xunit --with-coverage --cover-html --cover-html-dir=Coverage_report --verbosity=3 test/testall.py
+
+after_success:
+  - codecov
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4d697a2c..ddfb3344 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/python-xlib/python-xlib.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/python-xlib/python-xlib)
+
 # The Python X Library
 
 ### Copyright
@@ -8,12 +10,13 @@ The main part of the code is
 
 Some contributed code is copyrighted by [the contributors](https://github.com/python-xlib/python-xlib/graphs/contributors), in these cases that is indicated in the source files in question.
 
-The Python X Library is released under LGPL v2.1 or later, see the file LICENSE for details.
+The Python X Library is released under LGPL v2.1 or later (since 2016), see the file LICENSE for details.
+0.15rc1 and before were released under GPL v2.
 
 ### Requirements
 
 The Python X Library requires Python 1.5.2 or newer.  It has been
-tested to various extents with Python 1.5.2 and 2.0 through 2.6.
+tested to various extents with Python 1.5.2 and 2.0 through 2.7.
 
 
 ### Installation
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
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index 00000000..403b034e
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+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+coverage
+codecov
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diff --git a/test/testall.py b/test/testall.py
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+++ b/test/testall.py
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+import sys
+import os
+import unittest
+import struct
+
+import coverage
+
+testfolder = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+package_root = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(testfolder, ".."))
+sys.path.append(package_root)
+
+# needs to be called before importing the modules
+cov = coverage.coverage(branch = True, omit = os.path.join(package_root, 'examples', '*.py'))
+cov.start()
+
+from Xlib.protocol import request, rq, event
+import Xlib.protocol.event
+
+def is_big_endian():
+    "Check endianess (return True on big-endian system)"
+    return struct.unpack('BB', struct.pack('H', 0x0100))[0] != 0
+
+
+def run_tests():
+    "Run all suitable tests"
+
+    if is_big_endian():
+        excludes = ['test_events_le', 'test_requests_le', ]
+    else:
+        excludes = ['test_events_be', 'test_requests_be', ]
+
+    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
+
+    sys.path.append(testfolder)
+
+    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(testfolder):
+        test_modules = [
+            file.replace('.py', '') for file in files if
+                file.startswith('test_') and
+                file.endswith('.py')]
+
+        test_modules = [mod for mod in test_modules if mod.lower() not in excludes]
+        print('test_modules:')
+        print(test_modules)
+        for mod in test_modules:
+
+            imported_mod = __import__(mod, globals(), locals())
+
+            suite.addTests(
+                unittest.defaultTestLoader.loadTestsFromModule(imported_mod))
+
+    unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=3).run(suite)
+    cov.stop()
+    #print(cov.analysis())
+    print(cov.report())
+    cov.html_report(
+        directory = os.path.join(package_root, "Coverage_report"),
+        omit = [os.path.join(package_root, 'examples', '*.py'),
+                os.path.join(package_root, 'utils', '*.py'),
+                os.path.join(package_root, 'test', '*.py'), ]
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    run_tests()
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