diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index eb9f0100a..f1b8dfbe5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -60,6 +60,16 @@ script:
 # check gui with qt settings
   - ./cppcheck --library=qt  --error-exitcode=1  -Ilib -Iexternals/simplecpp/ -Iexternals/tinyxml/ -Icli --enable=style,performance,portability,warning,internal  --exception-handling -j 2 gui -igui/test |& tee --append /tmp/cppcheck.cppcheck
   - sh -c "! grep '^\[' /tmp/cppcheck.cppcheck"
+# run gui tests
+  - cd gui/test
+  - qmake
+  - make
+  - filelist/test-filelist
+  - projectfile/test-projectfile
+  - translationhandler/test-translationhandler
+  - xmlreport/test-xmlreport
+  - xmlreportv2/test-xmlreportv2
+  - cd ../..
 # run extra tests
   - tools/generate_and_run_more_tests.sh
 # check test/cfg