diff --git a/common/common.cabal b/common/common.cabal
index b3f93c0..98e5704 100644
--- a/common/common.cabal
+++ b/common/common.cabal
@@ -31,3 +31,21 @@ library
                      , OverloadedStrings
                      , RecordWildCards
   default-language:    Haskell2010
+
+test-suite spec
+  type:                exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  main-is:             Spec.hs
+  hs-source-dirs:      src
+  build-depends:       base >=4.10
+                     , classy-prelude
+                     , dhall
+                     , foreign-store
+                     , generic-lens
+                     , lens
+                     , mtl
+                     , text
+                     , transformers
+                     , validity
+                     , genvalidity-hspec
+                     , genvalidity-property
+                     , hspec
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/common/src/Spec.hs b/common/src/Spec.hs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a76fca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/src/Spec.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+module Main where
+
+import Test.Hspec
+
+spec :: Spec
+spec = describe "test" $ it "verifies tests work" $ True == True
+
+main :: IO ()
+main = hspec spec