diff --git a/tests/netstats_l2/Makefile b/tests/netstats_l2/Makefile
index afcee9e17dda1b8bcff9c5f838144ad0ed389e94..2cfb6cf4a7a6052a1b4be209b7fffaada95c6f12 100644
--- a/tests/netstats_l2/Makefile
+++ b/tests/netstats_l2/Makefile
@@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ USEMODULE += auto_init_gnrc_netif
 USEMODULE += netstats_l2
 
 include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include
+
+test:
+	tests/01-run.py
diff --git a/tests/netstats_l2/tests/01-run.py b/tests/netstats_l2/tests/01-run.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ee0e4e38f4da9786c48887e311254fcfba293fa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/netstats_l2/tests/01-run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright (C) 2017 Alexandre Abadie <alexandre.abadie@inria.fr>
+#               2017 Martine Lenders <m.lenders@fu-berlin.de>
+#
+# This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU Lesser
+# General Public License v2.1. See the file LICENSE in the top level
+# directory for more details.
+
+import os
+import sys
+
+
+def testfunc(child):
+    child.sendline('ifconfig')
+    child.expect(r'       Statistics for Layer 2')
+    child.expect(r'        RX packets \d+  bytes \d+')
+    child.expect(r'        TX packets \d+ \(Multicast: \d+\)  bytes \d+')
+    child.expect(r'        TX succeeded \d+ errors \d+')
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.environ['RIOTBASE'], 'dist/tools/testrunner'))
+    from testrunner import run
+    sys.exit(run(testfunc))