diff --git a/.github/workflows/python.yml b/.github/workflows/python.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b4077e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+name: Build and test
+
+on: [push]
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Set up Python 3.10
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: "3.10"
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+    - name: Lint with flake8
+      run: |
+        # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names
+        flake8 . --count --select=E9,F63,F7,F82 --show-source --statistics
+        # exit-zero treats all errors as warnings. The GitHub editor is 127 chars wide
+        flake8 . --count --exit-zero --max-complexity=10 --max-line-length=127 --statistics
+    - name: Lint with pylint
+      run: |
+        pylint $(git ls-files '*.py')
+    - name: Test with pytest
+      run: |
+        pytest
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fde50bc..7cceb60 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Usage examples
 The following examples assume a `credentials.json` file in the project
 directory.
 
-1. To analyze the messages of your inbox with resepect to their sender
+1. To analyze the messages of your inbox with respect to their sender
    domains and to see the envisaged label structure (without actually
    creating labels), call
 
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ directory.
     inbox contains multiple messages from the domain `foobar` and a
     label called `test/foobar` is existing, it will be displayed as
     matching target label. Only the lowest hierarchy level will be used
-    for name comparision, i.e., a label called `foobar/test` will not be
+    for name comparison, i.e., a label called `foobar/test` will not be
     displayed as match.
 
     If the messages from each domain shall be sorted under their
diff --git a/gmailsort_test.py b/gmailsort_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c39f14f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gmailsort_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# TODO add real tests
+def test_first_dummy_test():
+    my_variable = "abc"
+    assert "abc" == my_variable
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diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b7b4407..e38f17f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,7 @@ google-auth-oauthlib
 tldextract
 progress
 ftfy
-argcomplete
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+argcomplete
+flake8
+pytest
+pylint
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