diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c45b75e387
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# run-ptest for inotify-tools
+
+# Run the test binary and show output
+./test
+status=$?
+
+# Exit with the test’s result code
+if [ $status -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "All tests passed successfully."
+else
+    echo "Some tests failed. See output above for details."
+fi
+
+exit $status
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb
index 4e6bfbbc27..e8ed69d449 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/inotify-tools/inotify-tools_3.22.1.0.bb
@@ -9,11 +9,12 @@ SRCREV = "4b72dcd15299e1d0cb096397d9aab513ffed1657"
 
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/${BPN}/${BPN};branch=master;protocol=https \
            file://0002-libinotifytools-Bridge-differences-between-musl-glib.patch \
+           file://run-ptest \
           "
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-inherit autotools
+inherit autotools ptest
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-doxygen"
 
@@ -24,3 +25,16 @@ CFLAGS += "-Wno-error"
 PACKAGES =+ "libinotifytools"
 
 FILES:libinotifytools = "${libdir}/lib*.so.*"
+
+do_compile_ptest() {
+        cd libinotifytools/src
+        oe_runmake
+        oe_runmake test
+}
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+    cp -r ${B}/libinotifytools/src/.libs/test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
+}
+
+FILES:${PN}-ptest += "${PTEST_PATH}"