diff --git a/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenu/CMakeLists.txt b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenu/CMakeLists.txt
index 051f5121148d2d3d715c015da1fea5e553372411..18037653ddb1aa528ce8541a599397815d84491b 100644
--- a/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenu/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenu/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,3 +15,8 @@ atlas_install_joboptions( share/*.py )
 atlas_install_scripts( scripts/generate*Menu.py scripts/menuTestTMC.sh )
 atlas_install_xmls( data/*.dtd data/*.xml )
 
+atlas_add_test( generateMenu SCRIPT scripts/testMenu.sh 
+                PROPERTIES TIMEOUT 500 
+              )
+
+
diff --git a/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenu/scripts/testMenu.sh b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenu/scripts/testMenu.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8a937e1b3b54b80fc462cd62af44d2fa461a1516
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Trigger/TriggerCommon/TriggerMenu/scripts/testMenu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+athena.py -c "TriggerMenuSetup='MC_pp_v7'" TriggerMenuXML/runHLT_forXMLgeneration.py