diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..df6dbbca0b252f08899daefaa08f53978908b14a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+### https://raw.github.com/github/gitignore/14b7566ce157ce95b07006466bacee160f242284/maven.gitignore
+
+target/
+pom.xml.tag
+pom.xml.releaseBackup
+pom.xml.versionsBackup
+pom.xml.next
+release.properties
+
+
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3b214061e558a431391980e254ae9cb79d2bb99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+sudo: required
+
+services:
+  - docker
+
+language: go
+
+go: 1.4
+
+install:
+  - go get github.com/openshift/source-to-image
+  - pushd ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/openshift/source-to-image
+  - export PATH=$PATH:${GOPATH}/src/github.com/openshift/source-to-image/_output/local/bin/linux/amd64/
+  - hack/build-go.sh
+  - popd
+
+script: make test
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 55045314b9dd9a58d58b74d2dd9df25f80f7645d..f4d081d790cac4311b2648b46a6219e3d5b4eddd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Spring Boot - Maven 3 - CentOS Docker image
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/codecentric/springboot-maven3-centos.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/codecentric/springboot-maven3-centos)
+
 This repository contains the sources and [Dockerfile](https://github.com/codecentric/springboot-maven3-centos/blob/master/Dockerfile) of the base image for deploying Spring Boot applications as reproducible Docker images. The resulting images can be run either by [Docker](http://docker.io) or using [S2I](https://github.com/openshift/source-to-image).
 
 This image is heavily inspired by the awesome [openshift/sti-ruby](https://github.com/openshift/sti-ruby/) builder images.
diff --git a/test/test-app/pom.xml b/test/test-app/pom.xml
index 7a2e9e0c2d31edc381cc06f9096669961abb248a..de28539d06f62bca1944b0cfb8fc0eee54cf6887 100644
--- a/test/test-app/pom.xml
+++ b/test/test-app/pom.xml
@@ -20,4 +20,13 @@
       <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+        <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
 </project>