diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index da6fa6ee97..d7d711383c 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST = "\
     python3-jinja2 \
     python3-jsonpointer \
     python3-license-expression \
+    python3-mako \
     python3-markupsafe \
     python3-more-itertools \
     python3-pluggy \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-mako/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-mako/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8d2017d39c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-mako/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+pytest --automake
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-mako_1.3.5.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-mako_1.3.5.bb
index d27fb121a6..d52f72f458 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-mako_1.3.5.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-mako_1.3.5.bb
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=d0995d6f7ba3f186a03118f244e88f57"
 
 PYPI_PACKAGE = "Mako"
 
-inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta
+inherit pypi python_setuptools_build_meta ptest
+
+SRC_URI:append = " \
+    file://run-ptest \
+"
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "48dbc20568c1d276a2698b36d968fa76161bf127194907ea6fc594fa81f943bc"
 
@@ -17,4 +21,15 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN} = "python3-html \
                   python3-threading \
 "
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "\
+    python3-pytest \
+    python3-unittest-automake-output \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test
+    install -m 0644 ${S}/setup.cfg ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
+    cp -rf ${S}/test/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/test/
+}
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"