diff --git a/src/lofreq/call/test.sh b/src/lofreq/call/test.sh
index e69de29b..ccd8100c 100644
--- a/src/lofreq/call/test.sh
+++ b/src/lofreq/call/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+dir_in="${meta_resources_dir%/}/test_data"
+
+echo "> Run lofreq call"
+"$meta_executable" \
+  --input "$dir_in/a.bam" \
+  --input_bai "$dir_in/a.bai" \
+  --ref "$dir_in/genome.fasta" \
+  --output "output.vcf" \
+
+echo ">> Checking output"
+[ ! -f "output.vcf" ] && echo "Output file output.vcf does not exist" && exit 1
+
+echo "> Test successful"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/lofreq/call/test_data/script.sh b/src/lofreq/call/test_data/script.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9a90bf48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lofreq/call/test_data/script.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# pear test data
+
+# Test data was obtained from https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-wrappers/tree/master/bio/lofreq/call/test/data
+
+if [ ! -d /tmp/snakemake-wrappers ]; then
+  git clone --depth 1 --single-branch --branch master https://github.com/snakemake/snakemake-wrappers /tmp/snakemake-wrappers
+fi
+
+cp -r /tmp/snakemake-wrappers/bio/lofreq/call/test/data/* src/lofreq/call/test_data
+