diff --git a/CondCore/Utilities/test/BuildFile.xml b/CondCore/Utilities/test/BuildFile.xml
index 965967fb933c2..645dd361418bb 100644
--- a/CondCore/Utilities/test/BuildFile.xml
+++ b/CondCore/Utilities/test/BuildFile.xml
@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@
 </bin>
 
 <test name="testGetPayloadData" command="test_getPayloadData.sh"/>
+
+<test name="test_conddb" command="test_conddb.sh">
+ <flags PRE_TEST="testBasicPayload"/>
+</test>
diff --git a/CondCore/Utilities/test/test_conddb.sh b/CondCore/Utilities/test/test_conddb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..039f8027a747f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CondCore/Utilities/test/test_conddb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+function die { echo $1: status $2; exit $2; }
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb --help"
+conddb --help || die 'failed conddb --help' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb search"
+conddb search 4b97f78682aac6254bbcba54cedbde468202bf5b || die 'failed conddb search' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb listParentTags"
+conddb listParentTags 4b97f78682aac6254bbcba54cedbde468202bf5b || die 'failed conddb listParentTags' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb list"
+conddb list SiPixelQuality_phase1_2021_v1 || die 'failed conddb list' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb copy"
+conddb --yes --db pro copy SiPixelQuality_phase1_2021_v1 --destdb myfile.db  || die 'failed conddb copy' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb listTags"
+conddb --db BasicPayload_v0.db listTags || die 'failed conddb listTags' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb list on local sqlite file"
+conddb --db BasicPayload_v0.db list BasicPayload_v0 || die 'failed conddb list on local sqlite file' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb listGTsForTag"
+conddb listGTsForTag SiPixelQuality_phase1_2021_v1  || die 'failed conddb listGTsForTag' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb diff"
+conddb diff 120X_mcRun3_2021_realistic_v1 120X_mcRun3_2021_realistic_Candidate_2021_06_09_14_33_50  || die 'conddb diff' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb diffGlobalTagsAtRun"
+conddb diffGlobalTagsAtRun -R 120X_mcRun3_2021_realistic_v1 -T 120X_mcRun3_2021_realistic_Candidate_2021_06_09_14_33_50 --run 1 || die 'conddb diffGlobalTagsAtRun' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+echo "===========> testing conddb dump"
+conddb dump 4b97f78682aac6254bbcba54cedbde468202bf5b || die 'failed comparing metadata with reference' $?
+echo -ne '\n\n'
+
+#conddb showFCSR || die 'failed conddb showFCSR' $?  # the FCSR is not always a real run...