diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 4449e0862613eea5bfcb959beeb54d474283fba6..083c9fb5bc10101fe6b14a3bd635439cd385b95a 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ variables:
 image: maven:3.5.3-jdk-8
 
 mvn:package:
-  script: mvn clean package
+  script: mvn clean verify
diff --git a/checkstyle.xml b/checkstyle.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..bb821bb45c2e13b26c128eef1895dcd82a80417d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checkstyle.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
+    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  Checkstyle configuration based on sun_checks.xml with:
+   - magic number check is disabled
+   - hidden field is disabled
+   - JavadocPackage is disabled
+   - variables naming is "^[a-z][a-z0-9\_]*$"
+  
+  Checkstyle configuration that checks the sun coding conventions from:
+
+    - the Java Language Specification at
+      http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/index.html
+
+    - the Sun Code Conventions at http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
+
+    - the Javadoc guidelines at
+      http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingdoccomments/index.html
+
+    - the JDK Api documentation http://java.sun.com/j2se/docs/api/index.html
+
+    - some best practices
+
+  Checkstyle is very configurable. Be sure to read the documentation at
+  http://checkstyle.sf.net (or in your downloaded distribution).
+
+  Most Checks are configurable, be sure to consult the documentation.
+  To completely disable a check, just comment it out or delete it from the file.
+  Finally, it is worth reading the documentation.
+
+-->
+
+<module name="Checker">
+    <!--
+        If you set the basedir property below, then all reported file
+        names will be relative to the specified directory. See
+        http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/5.x/config.html#Checker
+
+        <property name="basedir" value="${basedir}"/>
+    -->
+
+    <!-- Checks that each Java package has a Javadoc file used for commenting. -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html#JavadocPackage       -->
+    <!-- <module name="JavadocPackage">
+      <property name="allowLegacy" value="true"/>
+    </module>-->
+
+    <!-- Checks whether files end with a new line.                        -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#NewlineAtEndOfFile -->
+    <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks that property files contain the same keys.         -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html#Translation -->
+    <module name="Translation"/>
+
+    <module name="FileLength"/>
+
+    <!-- Following interprets the header file as regular expressions. -->
+    <!-- <module name="RegexpHeader"/>                                -->
+
+    <module name="FileTabCharacter">
+        <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+        <!-- \s matches whitespace character, $ matches end of line. -->
+        <property name="format" value="\s+$"/>
+        <property name="message" value="Line has trailing spaces."/>
+    </module>
+
+    <module name="TreeWalker">
+
+        <property name="cacheFile" value="target/checkstyle_cache"/>
+
+        <!-- required for SuppressWarningsFilter (and other Suppress* rules not used here) -->
+        <!-- see http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_annotation.html#SuppressWarningsHolder -->
+        <module name="SuppressWarningsHolder"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for Javadoc comments.                     -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_javadoc.html -->
+        <module name="JavadocMethod">
+          <property name="scope" value="public"/>
+          <property name="allowMissingReturnTag" value="true" />
+          <property name="allowMissingParamTags" value="true" />
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavadocType"/>
+        <module name="JavadocVariable">
+           <property name="scope" value="public"/>
+        </module>
+        <module name="JavadocStyle"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Naming Conventions.                  -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_naming.html -->
+        <module name="ConstantName"/>
+        
+        <module name="LocalFinalVariableName">
+            <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-z0-9\_]*$"/>
+        </module>
+        
+        <module name="LocalVariableName">
+          <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-z0-9\_]*$"/>
+          <property name="allowOneCharVarInForLoop" value="true"/>
+        </module>
+        
+        <module name="MemberName">
+          <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-z0-9\_]*$"/>
+        </module>
+        
+        <module name="ParameterName">
+          <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-z0-9\_]*$"/>
+        </module>
+        
+        <!--<module name="CatchParameterName">
+          <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-z0-9\_]+$"/>
+        </module>-->
+        
+        <module name="StaticVariableName">
+          <property name="format" value="^[a-z][a-z0-9\_]*$"/>
+        </module>
+        
+        
+        <module name="MethodName"/>
+        <module name="PackageName"/>
+        <module name="TypeName"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Headers                                -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_header.html   -->
+        <!-- <module name="Header">                            -->
+            <!-- The follow property value demonstrates the ability     -->
+            <!-- to have access to ANT properties. In this case it uses -->
+            <!-- the ${basedir} property to allow Checkstyle to be run  -->
+            <!-- from any directory within a project. See property      -->
+            <!-- expansion,                                             -->
+            <!-- http://checkstyle.sf.net/config.html#properties        -->
+            <!-- <property                                              -->
+            <!--     name="headerFile"                                  -->
+            <!--     value="${basedir}/java.header"/>                   -->
+        <!-- </module> -->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for imports                              -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_import.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidStarImport"/>
+        <module name="IllegalImport"/> <!-- defaults to sun.* packages -->
+        <module name="RedundantImport"/>
+        <module name="UnusedImports"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for Size Violations.                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_sizes.html -->
+        <module name="LineLength"/>
+        <module name="MethodLength"/>
+        <!--<module name="ParameterNumber"/>-->
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for whitespace                               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_whitespace.html -->
+        <module name="EmptyForIteratorPad"/>
+        <module name="MethodParamPad"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="NoWhitespaceBefore"/>
+        <module name="OperatorWrap"/>
+        <module name="ParenPad"/>
+        <module name="TypecastParenPad"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAfter"/>
+        <module name="WhitespaceAround"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Modifier Checks                                    -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_modifiers.html -->
+        <module name="ModifierOrder"/>
+        <module name="RedundantModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for blocks. You know, those {}'s         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_blocks.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidNestedBlocks"/>
+        <module name="EmptyBlock"/>
+        <module name="LeftCurly"/>
+        <module name="NeedBraces"/>
+        <module name="RightCurly"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Checks for common coding problems               -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_coding.html -->
+        <module name="AvoidInlineConditionals"/>
+        <module name="EmptyStatement"/>
+        <module name="EqualsHashCode"/>
+        <!-- <module name="HiddenField"/> -->
+        <module name="IllegalInstantiation"/>
+        <module name="InnerAssignment"/>
+        <!-- <module name="MagicNumber"/> -->
+        <module name="MissingSwitchDefault"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanExpression"/>
+        <module name="SimplifyBooleanReturn"/>
+
+        <!-- Checks for class design                         -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_design.html -->
+        <module name="DesignForExtension"/>
+        <module name="FinalClass"/>
+        <module name="HideUtilityClassConstructor"/>
+        <module name="InterfaceIsType"/>
+        <module name="VisibilityModifier"/>
+
+
+        <!-- Miscellaneous other checks.                   -->
+        <!-- See http://checkstyle.sf.net/config_misc.html -->
+        <module name="ArrayTypeStyle"/>
+        <module name="FinalParameters"/>
+        <module name="TodoComment"/>
+        <module name="UpperEll"/>
+
+    </module>
+
+    <!-- Support @SuppressWarnings (added in Checkstyle 5.7) -->
+    <!-- see http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config.html#SuppressWarningsFilter -->
+    <module name="SuppressWarningsFilter"/>
+
+    <!-- Checks properties file for a duplicated properties. -->
+    <!-- See http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/config_misc.html#UniqueProperties -->
+    <module name="UniqueProperties"/>
+
+</module>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2ea5a9315555c278b71cf80782db88b73129bad7..218428fdf8d2b3ad41a4a484cc4d4ec629737a66 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,31 @@
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>2.16</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>validate</id>
+                        <phase>verify</phase>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
+                            <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
+                            <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
+                            <linkXRef>false</linkXRef>
+                        </configuration>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>check</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
diff --git a/src/main/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/Example.java b/src/main/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/Example.java
index 2ee2945e6d32a08baede56ca09bf07fb1ead722f..d896d3b4ba8c00a4d56ae654245580201ab25127 100644
--- a/src/main/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/Example.java
+++ b/src/main/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/Example.java
@@ -1,8 +1,4 @@
-/*
- * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
- * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
- * and open the template in the editor.
- */
+
 package be.cylab.java.wowa.training;
 
 /**
@@ -10,5 +6,5 @@ package be.cylab.java.wowa.training;
  * @author tibo
  */
 public class Example {
-    
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/ExampleTest.java b/src/test/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/ExampleTest.java
index fb5c2fa21ea0fc840a6d9d25d024d69a1ad13af5..38bc1edc9113bef70ce0ff5b048e78073e1f47b9 100644
--- a/src/test/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/ExampleTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/be/cylab/java/wowa/training/ExampleTest.java
@@ -1,15 +1,8 @@
-/*
- * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties.
- * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates
- * and open the template in the editor.
- */
+
 package be.cylab.java.wowa.training;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
 
 /**