diff --git a/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc b/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
index 0e63c6af10..0763e218bb 100644
--- a/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ PTESTS_SLOW_META_OE = "\
     c-ares \
     ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'x11', 'freerdp', '', d)} \
     fftw \
+    jsoncpp \
     libusb-compat \
     mariadb \
     postgresql \
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jsoncpp/files/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jsoncpp/files/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2cb892b187
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jsoncpp/files/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+cd src
+ctest --force-new-ctest-process | sed -u 's/\*\*\*/   /g' | awk '/Test +#/{gsub(/Passed/,"PASS"); gsub(/Failed/,"FAIL"); gsub(/Skipped/,"SKIP"); print $6": "$4; fflush();}'
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jsoncpp/jsoncpp_1.9.7.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jsoncpp/jsoncpp_1.9.7.bb
index b70a84304f..797f093f33 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jsoncpp/jsoncpp_1.9.7.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jsoncpp/jsoncpp_1.9.7.bb
@@ -14,11 +14,33 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5d73c165a0f9e86a1342f32d19ec5926"
 PE = "1"
 
 SRCREV = "3455302847cf1e4671f1d8f5fa953fd46a7b1404"
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp;branch=master;protocol=https;tag=${PV}"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp;branch=master;protocol=https;tag=${PV} \
+           file://run-ptest \
+           "
 
+inherit cmake ptest
 
-inherit cmake
+EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_OBJECT_LIBS=OFF \
+                  ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', '-DJSONCPP_WITH_TESTS=ON -DJSONCPP_WITH_POST_BUILD_UNITTEST=OFF', '-DJSONCPP_WITH_TESTS=OFF', d)} \
+                  "
 
-EXTRA_OECMAKE += "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_OBJECT_LIBS=OFF -DJSONCPP_WITH_TESTS=OFF"
+DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'rsync-native', '', d)}"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "cmake python3-core"
+
+do_install_ptest () {
+    cp -r ${B}/bin ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+    cp -r ${S}/test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+    
+    rsync -a ${B}/src ${D}${PTEST_PATH} \
+          --exclude CMakeFiles \
+          --exclude cmake_install.cmake \
+          --exclude Makefile \
+          --exclude generated
+    sed -i -e 's#${B}#${PTEST_PATH}#g' `find ${D}${PTEST_PATH} -name CTestTestfile.cmake`
+    sed -i -e 's#${S}#${PTEST_PATH}#g' `find ${D}${PTEST_PATH} -name CTestTestfile.cmake`
+    sed -i -e 's#${RECIPE_SYSROOT_NATIVE}##g' `find ${D}${PTEST_PATH} -name CTestTestfile.cmake`
+    sed -i -e 's#${PYTHON}#/usr/bin/python3#g' `find ${D}${PTEST_PATH} -name CTestTestfile.cmake`
+    sed -i -e 's#${WORKDIR}##g' `find ${D}${PTEST_PATH} -name CTestTestfile.cmake`
+}
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"