diff --git a/conda-recipe/build.sh b/conda-recipe/build.sh
index ffedfe8..21c4de5 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/build.sh
+++ b/conda-recipe/build.sh
@@ -55,18 +55,43 @@ cmake ..\
 ##
 
 if [[ $CONFIGURE_ONLY == 0 ]]; then
-    # BUILD
+    ##
+    ## BUILD
+    ##
     make -j${CPU_COUNT}
-
+    
+    ##
+    ## INSTALL
+    ##
     # "install" to the build prefix (conda will relocate these files afterwards)
     make install
     
     # For debug builds, this symlink can be useful...
     #cd ${PREFIX}/lib && ln -s libdvidcpp-g.${DYLIB_EXT} libdvidcpp.${DYLIB_EXT} && cd -
 
+    ##
+    ## TEST
+    ##
     if [[ -z "$SKIP_LIBDVID_TESTS" || "$SKIP_LIBDVID_TESTS" == "0" ]]; then
         echo "Running build tests.  To skip, set SKIP_LIBDVID_TESTS=1"
-    
+
+	    # Launch dvid
+	    echo "Starting test DVID server..."
+	    dvid -verbose serve ${RECIPE_DIR}/dvid-testserver-config.toml &
+	    DVID_PID=$!
+	
+	    sleep 5;
+	    if [ ! pgrep -x > /dev/null ]; then
+	        2>&1 echo "*****************************************************"
+	        2>&1 echo "Unable to start test DVID server!                    "
+	        2>&1 echo "Do you already have a server runnining on port :8000?"
+	        2>&1 echo "*****************************************************"
+	        exit 2
+	    fi 
+	    
+	    # Kill the DVID server when this script exits
+	    trap 'kill -TERM $DVID_PID' EXIT
+	    
         # This script runs 'make test', which uses the build artifacts in the build directory, not the installed files.
         # Therefore, they haven't been post-processed by conda to automatically locate their dependencies.
         # We'll set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to avoid errors from ld
diff --git a/conda-recipe/dvid-testserver-config.toml b/conda-recipe/dvid-testserver-config.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0cec5c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conda-recipe/dvid-testserver-config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Example simple configuration for DVID with single database backend.
+# See config-multidb.toml for full range of configurations including
+# email notifications, authentication, and backend assignments.
+
+[server]
+# host = "mygreatserver.test.com"  # Lets you specify a user-friendly alias for help messages.
+httpAddress = "localhost:8000"
+rpcAddress = "localhost:8001"
+webClient = "./http/dvid-web-console"
+
+[logging]
+logfile = "/tmp/dvid.log"
+max_log_size = 500 # MB
+max_log_age = 30   # days
+
+# If no backend is specified, DVID will return an error unless there is only
+# one store, which will automatically be backend.default, as in this example.
+#   See config-full.toml for example of [backend] use.
+
+
+# List the different storage systems available for metadata, data instances, etc.
+# Any nickname can be used for a store.  In this case, it's "raid6" to reflect
+# that the directory is on a RAID-6 drive system.  Note that all store properties
+# like "engine" and "path" should be lower-case by convention.
+[store]
+    [store.raid6]
+    engine = "basholeveldb"
+    path = "/tmp/basholeveldb"
diff --git a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
index cabeacb..b3cc09d 100644
--- a/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/conda-recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ requirements:
     - numpy >=1.9,{{NPY_VER}}*
     - scikit-image
 
+    # DVID is included as a build dependency so we can run 'make test'
+    - dvid
+        
   run:
     - boost 1.64.*
     - jsoncpp 1.6.2