diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 11d295c0..30772bd4 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,15 +1,34 @@
-sudo: false
+sudo: required
 
 language: python
 
 python:
   - 2.7
 
-install:
-  - pip install codecov
-
-script:
-  - coverage run tests.py
+services:
+  - mysql
 
+before_install:
+  - wget http://files.vlabs.ac.in/downloads/emacs.tar.gz
+  - tar -xvzf emacs.tar.gz
+  - cp -r emacs /home/travis/
+  - git clone https://github.com/ksripathi/test-project
+  - cd test-project
+  - make
+  - mysql -e 'CREATE DATABASE lds;'
+  - mysql -e 'show databases;'
+  - echo "USE mysql;\nUPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('root') WHERE user='root';\nFLUSH PRIVILEGES;\n" | mysql -u root
+  - cd build/code/
+  - export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)
+  - pip install oursql Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy requests flask-cors flask-testing pyyaml
+ 
+install: 
+  - sudo apt-get install emacs -y
+  
+script: 
+  - cd ../../..
+  - chmod +x run_tests.sh
+  - ./run_tests.sh
 after_success:
-  - codecov
+  - cat /etc/issue
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c8a7cb3c..2a5e4f1f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/ksripathi/example-python.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ksripathi/example-python)
+
 [Codecov][1] Python Example
 ===========================
 
+
 ```sh
 # 1) install codecov
 pip install codecov
diff --git a/run_tests.sh b/run_tests.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..58b4bd00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run_tests.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+status=0
+for f in $(find . -name '*test_*.py')
+do 
+    python "$f"
+     if [ $? -ne  0 ];
+     then
+	 status=1
+     fi
+done
+if [ $status -ne 1 ] ;
+then
+    exit 0
+else
+    exit 1
+fi