diff --git a/nixos/tests/installed-tests/default.nix b/nixos/tests/installed-tests/default.nix
index 9b11ce7a4fa9..8e997ee4aeb9 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/installed-tests/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/installed-tests/default.nix
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ in
   glib-networking = callInstalledTest ./glib-networking.nix {};
   gnome-photos = callInstalledTest ./gnome-photos.nix {};
   graphene = callInstalledTest ./graphene.nix {};
+  ibus = callInstalledTest ./ibus.nix {};
   libgdata = callInstalledTest ./libgdata.nix {};
   libxmlb = callInstalledTest ./libxmlb.nix {};
   ostree = callInstalledTest ./ostree.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/installed-tests/ibus.nix b/nixos/tests/installed-tests/ibus.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..af54b612b507
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/installed-tests/ibus.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ pkgs, makeInstalledTest, ... }:
+
+makeInstalledTest {
+  tested = pkgs.ibus;
+
+  testConfig = {
+    i18n.inputMethod.enabled = "ibus";
+  };
+
+  preTestScript = ''
+    # ibus has ibus-desktop-testing-runner but it tries to manage desktop session so we just spawn ibus-daemon ourselves
+    machine.succeed("ibus-daemon --daemonize --verbose")
+  '';
+
+  withX11 = true;
+
+  # TODO: ibus-daemon is currently crashing or something
+  # maybe make ibus systemd service that auto-restarts?
+  meta.broken = true;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix
index 86b2931aebb3..4951074bc43a 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/inputmethods/ibus/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 , wayland ? null
 , buildPackages
 , runtimeShell
+, nixosTests
 }:
 
 assert withWayland -> wayland != null && libxkbcommon != null;
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
   ];
 
-  outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
+  outputs = [ "out" "dev" "installedTests" ];
 
   postPatch = ''
     echo \#!${runtimeShell} > data/dconf/make-dconf-override-db.sh
@@ -84,11 +85,17 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     (enableFeature enablePython2Library "python-library")
     (enableFeature enablePython2Library "python2") # XXX: python2 library does not work anyway
     (enableFeature enableUI "ui")
+    "--enable-install-tests"
     "--with-unicode-emoji-dir=${unicode-emoji}/share/unicode/emoji"
     "--with-emoji-annotation-dir=${cldr-emoji-annotation}/share/unicode/cldr/common/annotations"
     "--with-ucd-dir=${unicode-character-database}/share/unicode"
   ];
 
+  makeFlags = [
+    "test_execsdir=${placeholder ''installedTests''}/libexec/installed-tests/ibus"
+    "test_sourcesdir=${placeholder ''installedTests''}/share/installed-tests/ibus"
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     autoreconfHook
     gtk-doc
@@ -128,6 +135,25 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     $out/bin/ibus version
   '';
 
+  postInstall = ''
+    # It has some hardcoded FHS paths and also we do not use it
+    # since we set up the environment in NixOS tests anyway.
+    moveToOutput "bin/ibus-desktop-testing-runner" "$installedTests"
+  '';
+
+  postFixup = ''
+    # set necessary environment also for tests
+    for f in $installedTests/libexec/installed-tests/ibus/*; do
+        wrapGApp $f
+    done
+  '';
+
+  passthru = {
+    tests = {
+      installed-tests = nixosTests.installed-tests.ibus;
+    };
+  };
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/ibus/ibus";
     description = "Intelligent Input Bus, input method framework";