diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml b/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml
index c4e69cc..c985f95 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_docs.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Prepare
         run: conda install doxygen sphinx=7.1.2 breathe pybind11 sphinx_rtd_theme furo nlohmann_json zeromq fmt numpy
 
-      - name: Build library 
+      - name: Build 
         run: |
             mkdir build 
             cd build 
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ jobs:
             make -j 2 
             make docs
 
+      - name: Test
+        working-directory: ${{github.workspace}}/build
+        # Execute tests defined by the CMake configuration.
+        # See https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/ctest.1.html for more detail
+        run: ctest -C ${{env.BUILD_TYPE}} -j1
+
       - name: Upload static files as artifact
         id: deployment
         uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3