diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index e69de29b..97f9e3b3 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "irctest"]
+	path = irctest
+	url = https://github.com/oragono/irctest
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index db22526a..2760f056 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 language: go
 
+dist: focal
+
 go:
     - "1.15.x"
 
@@ -8,6 +10,7 @@ before_install:
   - sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6'
 
 script:
-- make
+- make install
 - make test
 - make smoke
+- make irctest
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 748f36e0..5cccb9a0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: all install build release capdefs test smoke gofmt
+.PHONY: all install build release capdefs test smoke gofmt irctest
 
 GIT_COMMIT := $(shell git rev-parse HEAD 2> /dev/null)
 
@@ -39,3 +39,7 @@ smoke:
 
 gofmt:
 	./.check-gofmt.sh --fix
+
+irctest:
+	git submodule update --init
+	cd irctest && make integration
diff --git a/irctest b/irctest
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..0287b837
--- /dev/null
+++ b/irctest
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0287b837971c27ee55bc4dca95d31afc68d2aeea