diff --git a/tests/acpixtract/PURPOSE b/tests/acpixtract/PURPOSE
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+PURPOSE of tests/acpixtract
+Description: sanity check that ACPI tables created by acpidump can be read
+Author: Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tests/acpixtract/runtest.sh b/tests/acpixtract/runtest.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#       simple script to run acpixtract and verify we got
+#	some output.
+#
+
+PWD=$(pwd)
+BINDIR="/usr/bin"
+
+# see if acpidump runs
+rm -f /tmp/acpi.tables
+$BINDIR/acpidump -o /tmp/acpi.tables 2>&1
+RET=$?
+if [ $RET -ne 0 ]
+then
+	echo FAIL acpixtract-dump
+	exit $RET
+fi
+
+RET=2
+sz=$(ls -s /tmp/acpi.tables | cut -d' ' -f1)
+[[ $sz -gt 0 ]] && RET=0
+if [ $RET -ne 0 ]
+then
+	echo FAIL acpixtract-size
+	exit $RET
+fi
+
+# see if acpixtract runs
+$BINDIR/acpixtract -a /tmp/acpi.tables 2>&1
+RET=$?
+if [ $RET -ne 0 ]
+then
+	echo FAIL acpixtract-read
+	exit $RET
+fi
+
+echo PASS acpixtract
+exit $RET
diff --git a/tests/test_acpixtract.yml b/tests/test_acpixtract.yml
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+- hosts: localhost
+  vars:
+  - artifacts: "{{ lookup('env', 'TEST_ARTIFACTS')|default('./artifacts', true) }}"
+  tags:
+  - classic
+  roles:
+  - role: standard-test-basic
+    tests:
+    - acpixtract
+    required_packages:
+    - acpica-tools
+  remote_user: root
+  tasks:
+  - name: acpixtract
+    block:
+      - name: run acpixtract
+        shell: exec > /tmp/acpixtract.test.log 2>&1 && ./acpixtract/runtest.sh
+
+    always:
+      - name: pull out results
+        fetch:
+          dest: "{{ artifacts }}/"
+          src:  "{{ item }}"
+          flat: yes
+        with_items:
+        - /tmp/acpixtract.test.log