diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6143e53..e03bbd8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -20,3 +20,5 @@
 
 # virtual machine crash logs, see http://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_hotspot.xml
 hs_err_pid*
+*.sw*
+vendor/
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..751cf8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+check: vendor/bats
+	./vendor/bats/bin/bats $(wildcard t/*.bats) $(wildcard t/**/*.bats)
+
+vendor/bats:
+	mkdir -p vendor
+	git clone --depth 1 \
+		-b v0.4.0 \
+		https://github.com/sstephenson/bats.git $@
+
+
+.PHONY: check
diff --git a/t/base/includes.bats b/t/base/includes.bats
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2231a2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/base/includes.bats
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bats
+
+@test "exact match" {
+}