diff --git a/tests/test_readers.cpp b/tests/test_readers.cpp
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+/*
+  Copyright © 2018 Hasan Yavuz Özderya
+
+  This file is part of serialplot.
+
+  serialplot is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+  (at your option) any later version.
+
+  serialplot is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+  GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  along with serialplot.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+// This tells Catch to provide a main() - only do this in one cpp file per executable
+#define CATCH_CONFIG_RUNNER
+#include "catch.hpp"
+
+#include <QBuffer>
+#include "binarystreamreader.h"
+
+TEST_CASE("creating a BinaryStreamReader", "[reader]")
+{
+    QBuffer buffer;
+
+    BinaryStreamReader bs(&buffer);
+}
+
+// Note: this is added because `QApplication` is a must be created for widgets
+#include <QApplication>
+int main(int argc, char* argv[])
+{
+    QApplication a(argc, argv);
+
+    int result = Catch::Session().run( argc, argv );
+
+    return result;
+}