diff --git a/ghc-zlib.spec b/ghc-zlib.spec
index 0e16e1c..b538210 100644
--- a/ghc-zlib.spec
+++ b/ghc-zlib.spec
@@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ This package provides the Haskell %{pkg_name} profiling library.
 # End cabal-rpm setup
 #remove the copy library
 rm -r cbits
-%if %{with tests}
-cabal-tweak-remove-upperbound tasty
-cabal-tweak-remove-upperbound tasty-hunit
-cabal-tweak-remove-upperbound tasty-quickcheck
-%endif
+# upperbounds
+cabal-tweak-dep-ver tasty '< 0.12' '< 1.3'
+cabal-tweak-dep-ver tasty-hunit '< 0.10' '< 0.11'
+cabal-tweak-dep-ver tasty-quickcheck '== 0.8.*' '> 0.8'
 
 
 %build
diff --git a/tests/simple/runtest.sh b/tests/simple/runtest.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6ca8bfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/simple/runtest.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+#!/usr/bin/sh
+set -ex
+
+SOURCEDIR=$1
+
+cd "${SOURCEDIR}" || exit 1
+
+cabal update
+cabal install --enable-tests --only-dependencies
+
+cabal test
diff --git a/tests/tests.yaml b/tests/tests.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2f636a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tests.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+---
+- hosts: localhost
+  roles:
+  - role: standard-test-source
+    tags:
+    - classic
+
+  - role: standard-test-basic
+    tags:
+    - classic
+    required_packages:
+    - cabal-install
+    - ghc-tasty-hunit-devel
+    - ghc-tasty-quickcheck-devel
+    - ghc-zlib-devel
+    tests:
+    - simple:
+        dir: simple
+        run: ./runtest.sh {{ tenv_workdir }}/source/
+...