diff --git a/tests/frontends-tests.sh b/tests/frontends-tests.sh
index 7fe012d131f8..060ff03c3215 100755
--- a/tests/frontends-tests.sh
+++ b/tests/frontends-tests.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ SCRIPT_ABS_DIR=$(dirname "$SCRIPT_ABS_PATH")
 JOERN="$SCRIPT_ABS_DIR"/../joern
 
 # first, run a simplistic smoke test
-$JOERN --script tests/frontends-smoketest.sc
+$JOERN --script tests/frontends-smoketest.sc --verbose
 
 # now test all frontends with proper input code
 frontends=(c jssrc javasrc java ghidra pythonsrc php)