diff --git a/tests/pkg_u8g2/Makefile b/tests/pkg_u8g2/Makefile
index 9933ed988c..97b138aec2 100644
--- a/tests/pkg_u8g2/Makefile
+++ b/tests/pkg_u8g2/Makefile
@@ -59,3 +59,6 @@ CFLAGS += -DTEST_PIN_RESET=$(TEST_PIN_RESET)
 CFLAGS += -DTEST_DISPLAY=$(TEST_DISPLAY)
 
 include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include
+
+test:
+	tests/01-run.py
diff --git a/tests/pkg_u8g2/tests/01-run.py b/tests/pkg_u8g2/tests/01-run.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..a8000938a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/pkg_u8g2/tests/01-run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Inria
+#
+# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+# directory for more details.
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+EXPECTED_STDOUT = (
+    '00|                                                   |',
+    '02|                                                   |',
+    '04|                                                   |',
+    '06|                                                   |',
+    '08|                                                   |',
+    '10|      █████▐▋  ▐▋▐▋ ▟██▖                           |',
+    '12|        █  ▐▋  ▐▋▐▋▐▛ ▝█                           |',
+    '14|        █  ▐████▋▐▋▝█▙▄                            |',
+    '16|        █  ▐▋  ▐▋▐▋  ▀▜▙                           |',
+    '18|        █  ▐▋  ▐▋▐▋▐▙ ▗█                           |',
+    '20|        █  ▐▋  ▐▋▐▋ ▜██▘                           |',
+    '22|                                                   |',
+    '24|                                                   |',
+    '26|                                                   |',
+    '28|                                                   |',
+    '30|                                                   |',
+    '00|                                                   |',
+    '02|                                                   |',
+    '04|                                                   |',
+    '06|                                                   |',
+    '08|                                                   |',
+    '10|            ▐▋ ▟██▖                                |',
+    '12|            ▐▋▐▛ ▝█                                |',
+    '14|            ▐▋▝█▙▄                                 |',
+    '16|            ▐▋  ▀▜▙                                |',
+    '18|            ▐▋▐▙ ▗█                                |',
+    '20|            ▐▋ ▜██▘                                |',
+    '22|                                                   |',
+    '24|                                                   |',
+    '26|                                                   |',
+    '28|                                                   |',
+    '30|                                                   |',
+    '00|           ▄▄▖                                     |',
+    '02|         ▗████▋                                    |',
+    '04|        ▗█▛▘ ▜█▖                                   |',
+    '06|        ▐█    █▋                                   |',
+    '08|        ██    █▋                                   |',
+    '10|        ██   ▟█▘                                   |',
+    '12|        ▜█ ▄▟█▛  ▄   ▄▄  ▄▄▄▄                      |',
+    '14|    ▗▄█▖▐█▝██▀   █▋ ▟▛▜▙ ▀▜▛▀                      |',
+    '16|   ▗██▀ ▐█ ▝     █▋ █▋ █  ▐▋                       |',
+    '18|   ▟▛   ▐█  ▄    █▋ █▋ █  ▐▋                       |',
+    '20|   █▋   ▐█ ▝█▋   █▋ █▋ █  ▐▋                       |',
+    '22|   █▋   ▐█  ▜█   █▋ █▋ █  ▐▋                       |',
+    '24|   █▙  ▗█▛  ▝█▙  █▋ █▋▗█  ▐▋                       |',
+    '26|   ▐█▙▄██▘   ▜█  █▘ ▝██▘  ▐▋                       |',
+    '28|    ▝▜█▀▘                                          |',
+    '30|                                                   |',
+)
+
+
+def testfunc(child):
+    child.expect_exact('Initializing to stdout.')
+    child.expect_exact('Initializing display.')
+    child.expect_exact('Drawing on screen.')
+
+    for line in EXPECTED_STDOUT:
+        child.expect_exact(line)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.environ['RIOTBASE'], 'dist/tools/testrunner'))
+    from testrunner import run
+    sys.exit(run(testfunc))