diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 39237a33..dbbd0ebc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ wayland_cursor = dependency('wayland-cursor')
 xkb = dependency('xkbcommon', version: '>=1.0.0')
 fontconfig = dependency('fontconfig')
 utf8proc = dependency('libutf8proc', required: get_option('grapheme-clustering'))
+check = dependency('check', required: false)
 
 if utf8proc.found()
   add_project_arguments('-DFOOT_GRAPHEME_CLUSTERING=1', language: 'c')
diff --git a/tests/meson.build b/tests/meson.build
index 4fe52c7d..386f99bc 100644
--- a/tests/meson.build
+++ b/tests/meson.build
@@ -6,3 +6,17 @@ config_test = executable(
   dependencies: [pixman, xkb, fontconfig, fcft, tllist])
 
 test('config', config_test)
+
+if check.found()
+  foot_test = executable(
+    'test-foot',
+    'test-foot.c',
+    '../config.c', '../config.h',
+    '../tokenize.c', '../tokenize.h',
+    '../user-notification.c', '../user-notification.h',
+    wl_proto_headers,
+    dependencies: [check, pixman, xkb, fcft],
+    link_with: [common]
+  )
+  test('foot', foot_test)
+endif
diff --git a/tests/test-foot.c b/tests/test-foot.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7a62270b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test-foot.c
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#include <check.h>
+#include "../config.h"
+#include "../user-notification.h"
+
+static struct config conf = {0};
+static user_notifications_t user_notifications = tll_init();
+
+static void
+conf_setup(void)
+{
+    memset(&conf, 0, sizeof(conf));
+}
+
+static void
+conf_teardown(void)
+{
+    config_free(conf);
+}
+
+static void
+user_notifications_setup(void)
+{
+    ck_assert_int_eq(tll_length(user_notifications), 0);
+}
+
+static void
+user_notifications_teardown(void)
+{
+    user_notifications_free(&user_notifications);
+}
+
+START_TEST(config_invalid_path)
+{
+    bool success = config_load(
+        &conf, "/invalid-path", &user_notifications, NULL, true);
+    ck_assert(!success);
+}
+
+static Suite *
+foot_suite(void)
+{
+    Suite *suite = suite_create("foot");
+    TCase *config = tcase_create("config");
+    tcase_add_checked_fixture(config, &conf_setup, &conf_teardown);
+    tcase_add_checked_fixture(
+        config, &user_notifications_setup, &user_notifications_teardown);
+    tcase_add_test(config, config_invalid_path);
+    suite_add_tcase(suite, config);
+    return suite;
+}
+
+int
+main(int argc, const char *const *argv)
+{
+    Suite *suite = foot_suite();
+    SRunner *runner = srunner_create(suite);
+    srunner_run_all(runner, CK_NORMAL);
+    int failed = srunner_ntests_failed(runner);
+    srunner_free(runner);
+    return failed;
+}