diff --git a/cmake/FCCAnalysesFunctions.cmake b/cmake/FCCAnalysesFunctions.cmake
index ee0dd42740..bba689564c 100644
--- a/cmake/FCCAnalysesFunctions.cmake
+++ b/cmake/FCCAnalysesFunctions.cmake
@@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ function(add_generic_test _testname _testcmd)
                TEST_INPUT_DATA_DIR=${TEST_INPUT_DATA_DIR})
 endfunction()
 
+function(add_standalone_test _testname)
+  add_test(NAME fccanalysis_standalone_${_testname}
+           COMMAND python ${_testname} --test
+           WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+  )
+  set_property(TEST fccanalysis_standalone_${_testname} APPEND PROPERTY ENVIRONMENT
+               LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/e4hsource:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/analyzers/dataframe:$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+               PYTHONPATH=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/python:$ENV{PYTHONPATH}
+               PATH=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/bin:${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}:$ENV{PATH}
+               ROOT_INCLUDE_PATH=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/e4hsource:${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/analyzers/dataframe:$ENV{ROOT_INCLUDE_PATH}
+               TEST_INPUT_DATA_DIR=${TEST_INPUT_DATA_DIR}
+  )
+endfunction()
+
 macro(fccanalyses_addon_build _name)
   set(options)
   set(one_val)
diff --git a/examples/FCCee/fullSim/caloNtupleizer/analysis.py b/examples/FCCee/fullSim/caloNtupleizer/analysis.py
index 27ef7ae63a..c2a56f14e8 100644
--- a/examples/FCCee/fullSim/caloNtupleizer/analysis.py
+++ b/examples/FCCee/fullSim/caloNtupleizer/analysis.py
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ def str2bool(v):
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 
-parser.add_argument("-inputFiles", default = 'ALLEGRO_sim_digi_reco.root', help = "Input rootfiles (can be a single file or a regex)", type = str)
+parser.add_argument("-inputFiles", type=str,
+                    default='ALLEGRO_sim_digi_reco.root',
+                    help="Input rootfiles (can be a single file or a regex)")
+parser.add_argument("-t", "--test", action="store_true", default=False,
+                    help="Run over pre-defined test file")
 parser.add_argument("-outputFolder", default = os.path.join("outputs", date.today().strftime("%y%m%d")), help = "Output folder for the rootfiles", type = str)
 parser.add_argument("-storeCellBranches", default = True, help="Whether or not to store cell information", type = str2bool)
 parser.add_argument("-cellBranchNames", default = ["ECalBarrelPositionedCells"], help="Name of the cell branch in the input rootfile. Must have position information!", type = str)
@@ -29,7 +33,8 @@ def str2bool(v):
 parser.add_argument("-storeClusterCellsBranches", default = False, help="Whether or not to store cluster cells information", type = str2bool)
 parser.add_argument("-clusterCellsBranchNames", default = ["PositionedCaloClusterCells"], help="Name of the cluster-attached-cells branches in the input rootfile. Order must follow -clusterBranchNames and the cells must have positions attached!", type = str, nargs = '+')
 parser.add_argument("-storeGenBranches", default = True, help="Whether or not to store gen information", type = str2bool)
-parser.add_argument("-genBranchName", default = "MCParticles", help="Name of the gen particle branch in the input rootfile", type = str)
+parser.add_argument("-genBranchName", type=str, default="MCParticles",
+                    help="Name of the gen particle branch in the input rootfile")
 parser.add_argument("-storeSimParticleSecondaries", default = False, help="Whether to store the SimParticleSecondaries information", type = str2bool)
 parser.add_argument("-simParticleSecondariesNames", default = ["SimParticleSecondaries"],  help = "name of the SimParticleSecondaries branch", type = str, nargs = '+')
 parser.add_argument("-useGeometry", default = True, help="Whether or not to load the FCCSW geometry. Used to get the detector segmentation for e.g. the definition of the cell layer index.", type = str2bool)
@@ -191,8 +196,14 @@ def run(self):
 
         df2.Snapshot("events", self.outname, branchList)
 
+if args.test:
+    filelist = ["https://fccsw.web.cern.ch/fccsw/testsamples/fccanalyses/ALLEGRO_sim_digi_reco.root"]
+else:
+    filelist = glob.glob(args.inputFiles)
 
-filelist = glob.glob(args.inputFiles)
+if not filelist:
+    print('No input found! Aborting...')
+    sys.exit(3)
 
 fileListRoot = ROOT.vector('string')()
 print ("Input files:")
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index 9cae25a5d1..45361f115a 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,7 @@ add_integration_test("examples/FCCee/flavour/Bc2TauNu/analysis_B2TauNu_truth.py"
 add_integration_test("examples/FCCee/test/jet_constituents.py")
 add_integration_test("examples/FCCee/vertex_lcfiplus/analysis_V0.py")
 
+add_standalone_test("examples/FCCee/fullSim/caloNtupleizer/analysis.py")
+
 # TODO: make this test run in the spack build environment
 #add_generic_test(build_new_case_study "tests/build_new_case_study.sh")