diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a25fea28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+dist: trusty
+sudo: required
+language: rust
+cache:
+    cargo: true
+rust:
+  - stable
+  - beta
+  - nightly
+
+addons:
+  apt:
+    packages:
+      - liborc-0.4-dev
+      - libglib2.0-dev
+      - libxml2-dev
+
+matrix:
+  allow_failures:
+    - rust: nightly
+
+script:
+    - rustc --version
+    - cargo build --all
+    - cargo test --all
+
+before_install:
+- curl -L https://people.freedesktop.org/~slomo/gstreamer.tar.gz | tar xz
+- sed -i "s;prefix=/root/gstreamer;prefix=$PWD/gstreamer;g" $PWD/gstreamer/lib/pkgconfig/*.pc
+- export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PWD/gstreamer/lib/pkgconfig
+- export GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH=$PWD/gstreamer/lib/gstreamer-1.0
+- export GST_PLUGIN_SCANNER=$PWD/gstreamer/libexec/gstreamer-1.0/gst-plugin-scanner
+- export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/gstreamer/bin
+- export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/gstreamer/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4cbd3c1f..df6c90fe 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# gst-plugin-rs
+# gst-plugin-rs [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/sdroege/gst-plugin-rs.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/sdroege/gst-plugin-rs)
 
 [GStreamer](https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/) elements built in the [Rust programming language](https://www.rust-lang.org/).