diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
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+image: vispaweb/pxl-testing
+
+stages:
+  - test
+
+test:
+  stage: test
+  script:
+    - echo "Hello, world!" | tee -a output.txt
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - output.txt
+    name: "${CI_BUILD_NAME}_${CI_BUILD_REF_NAME}"
diff --git a/docker/testing/Dockerfile b/docker/testing/Dockerfile
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+FROM debian:jessie
+
+WORKDIR /root
+
+# image config
+LABEL name="pxl-testing"
+LABEL version="0.1"
+
+# copy files
+COPY test_pxl.sh test_pxl.sh
+
+# basic environment variables
+ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
+ENV LIBPATH /usr/local/lib
+ENV PYTHONPATH /usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
+ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
+ENV CMAKE_MODULE_PATH /usr/local/etc/cmake
+ENV MANPATH /usr/local/man
+
+# setup software
+RUN apt-get -y update; apt-get clean
+RUN apt-get -y install build-essential git cmake swig zip gzip zlib1g-dev nano wget; apt-get clean
+RUN wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.13/Python-2.7.13.tgz && \
+    tar -xzf Python-2.7.13.tgz && \
+    rm Python-2.7.13.tgz && \
+    cd Python-2.7.13 && \
+    ./configure --enable-shared && \
+    make && \
+    make install && \
+    cd .. && \
+    rm -rf Python-2.7.13
diff --git a/docker/testing/test_pxl.sh b/docker/testing/test_pxl.sh
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f60fbc444d042091ed00140c79f8953bab095d69
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+++ b/docker/testing/test_pxl.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+action() {
+
+	local origin="$( /bin/pwd )"
+
+	local branch="master"
+	[ ! -z "$1" ] && branch="$1"
+
+	git clone https://git.rwth-aachen.de/3pia/pxl.git
+	cd pxl
+	git checkout "$branch"
+	mkdir build
+	cd build
+	cmake .. ${@:2}
+	make
+	make test
+
+	cd "$origin"
+
+}
+action "$@"