diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index e69ef0edb8fa2724824e3951f381a9f290cd3ed5..9c42c6b9c04e72d5c9394dc755039255d37dc5ba 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ MAC/GCF/LogSys/KVLogSys/src/Makefile.am -text svneol=native#application/octet-st
 MAC/GCF/LogSys/Makefile.am -text svneol=native#application/octet-stream
 MAC/GCF/LogSys/bootstrap -text svneol=native#application/octet-stream
 MAC/GCF/LogSys/configure.in -text svneol=native#application/octet-stream
+MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/tPVSSservice.dpl -text
 MAC/GCF/README -text svneol=native#application/octet-stream
 MAC/GCF/RTDB/test/readScript.ctl -text
 MAC/GCF/RTDB/test/writeScript.ctl -text
diff --git a/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/Makefile.am b/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/Makefile.am
index 0946feff8362c0d6f6f1dfd3360a553c07afc8cc..745632437aea24c9144b1a65cbc01bfc378ef66c 100644
--- a/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/Makefile.am
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS = -I$(top_srcdir)/PVSS/src
 
 check_PROGRAMS 		= tPVSSservice tPerformance tPVSSconnect tMonitorState tPVSSinfo
 
-TESTS				= tPVSSservice 
+TESTS				= tPVSSservice.sh
 
 tPVSSservice_SOURCES 		= $(BUILT_SOURCES) tPVSSservice.cc Response.cc
 tPVSSservice_LDADD			=  ../src/libgcfpvss.la $(LOFAR_DEPEND)
diff --git a/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/tPVSSservice.dpl b/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/tPVSSservice.dpl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6b20e08efe33140345a9418fd8ad5648cc8a2899
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/tPVSSservice.dpl
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# This file was generated by create_db_files v1.0 on Thu Mar 15 07:51:32 UTC 2007
+
+TypeName
+TestPS.TestPS	1#1
+	uintVal	20#2
+	intVal	21#3
+	floatVal	22#4
+	boolVal	23#5
+	stringVal	25#6
+	uintArr	4#7
+	intArr	5#8
+	floatArr	6#9
+	boolArr	7#10
+	stringArr	8#11
+	level1	1#12
+		intVal	21#13
+		level2	1#14
+			stringVal	25#15
+
+TestInt.TestInt	1#1
+	theValue	21#2
+
diff --git a/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/tPVSSservice.sh b/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/tPVSSservice.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..fcb1841471bb588703153dc6d1a995b571fd88ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MAC/GCF/PVSS/test/tPVSSservice.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+PVSS00ascii -in tPVSSservice.dpl
+$lofar_sharedir/runtest.sh tPVSSservice 2>&1 > tPVSSservice.log