diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81b3f7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+language: scala
+scala:
+    - 2.9.3
+    - 2.10.4
+    - 2.11.7
+jdk:
+    - oraclejdk7
+    - oraclejdk8
+    - openjdk8
+script: sbt ++$TRAVIS_SCALA_VERSION test-only -- -l com.ironcorelabs.davenport.tags.RequiresCouch
+
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/RequiresCouch.java b/src/test/java/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/RequiresCouch.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b3df35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/RequiresCouch.java
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+package com.ironcorelabs.davenport.tags;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.*;
+import org.scalatest.TagAnnotation;
+
+@TagAnnotation
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
+public @interface RequiresCouch {}
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/CouchConnectionSpec.scala b/src/test/scala/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/CouchConnectionSpec.scala
index e090233..3c3a2de 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/CouchConnectionSpec.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/CouchConnectionSpec.scala
@@ -6,13 +6,16 @@
 package com.ironcorelabs.davenport
 
 import scalaz._, Scalaz._, scalaz.concurrent.Task
-import org.scalatest.{ WordSpec, Matchers, BeforeAndAfterAll, OptionValues }
+import org.scalatest.{ WordSpec, Matchers, BeforeAndAfterAll, OptionValues, Tag }
 import org.typelevel.scalatest._
 import DisjunctionValues._
 import scala.language.postfixOps
 import DB._
+import com.ironcorelabs.davenport.tags.RequiresCouch
+// import com.ironcorelabs.davenport.tagobjects.RequiresCouch
 import scala.concurrent.duration._
 
+@RequiresCouch
 class CouchConnectionSpec extends WordSpec with Matchers with BeforeAndAfterAll with DisjunctionMatchers with OptionValues {
   val k = Key("test")
   val k404 = Key("test404")
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/Tags.scala b/src/test/scala/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/Tags.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3efa947
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/ironcorelabs/davenport/Tags.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+//
+// com.ironcorelabs.davenport.Tags
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2015 IronCore Labs
+//
+package com.ironcorelabs.davenport.tagobjects
+
+import org.scalatest.Tag
+
+object RequiresCouch extends Tag("com.ironcorelabs.davenport.tags.RequiresCouch")
+