diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yaml b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..23d17ae1af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+name: Python package
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+#        python-version: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install flake8 pytest wheel
+          cat autoptsclient_requirements.txt | xargs -n 1 pip install || true
+          cat autoptsserver_requirements.txt | xargs -n 1 pip install || true
+          pip install -U -e .
+      - name: Compile
+        run: |
+          python -m py_compile autoptsserver.py
+          python -m py_compile autoptsclient_bot.py
+      - name: Lint with flake8
+        run: |
+          # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+          flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+          # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+          flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+      - name: Test with pytest
+        run: |
+          pytest ./test/unittests.py
+      - name: Test MMI parser
+        run: |
+          ./test/test-mmi-parser.py
+#      - name: Style check
+#        run: |
+#          ./test/stylecheck.py
diff --git a/test/stylecheck.py b/test/stylecheck.py
index 504674ae4a..5b60a58127 100755
--- a/test/stylecheck.py
+++ b/test/stylecheck.py
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def run_checks(py_files):
         try:
             subprocess.check_output(shlex.split(cmd), stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError as exc:
-            print("\nCheck failed:\n", exc.output)
+            print("\nCheck failed:\n", exc.output.decode("utf-8"))
             sys.exit(1)
 
 
@@ -55,9 +55,8 @@ def main():
     top_level = subprocess.check_output(
         "git rev-parse --show-toplevel", shell=True).strip()
     os.chdir(top_level)
-    files = subprocess.check_output("git ls-files", shell=True)
-    py_files = [
-        fl for fl in files.splitlines() if os.path.splitext(fl)[1] == ".py"]
+    files = subprocess.check_output("git ls-files", shell=True).decode("utf-8")
+    py_files = [fl for fl in files.splitlines() if fl.endswith(".py")]
 
     run_checks(py_files)
 
diff --git a/test/unittests.py b/test/unittests.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d5af60aaf9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unittests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import unittest
+
+
+class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_something(self):
+        self.assertEqual(True, True)  # add assertion here
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()