diff --git a/recipes-cloud/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher_1.2.4.bb b/recipes-cloud/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher_1.2.4.bb
index 32b50518d..228d39ced 100644
--- a/recipes-cloud/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher_1.2.4.bb
+++ b/recipes-cloud/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher_1.2.4.bb
@@ -1,44 +1,47 @@
-# -*- mode: Conf; -*-
+SUMMARY = "amazon cloudwatch publisher"
 DESCRIPTION = "Push metrics and logs to CloudWatch from any system that can run Python"
 HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher"
 LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=34400b68072d710fecd0a2940a0d1658"
 
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += " \
-	python3-boto3 \
-	python3-psutil \
-	python3-requests \
-	python3-timeloop \
-"
+BRANCH ?= "main"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+	git://github.com/awslabs/${BPN};branch=${BRANCH};protocol=https \
+    file://run-ptest \
+    "
+SRCREV = "9feebfa9facb6bfddade737de7a90bfbfd65cf6e"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-inherit systemd
+inherit systemd ptest
 
 SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "${BPN}.service"
 SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "enable"
 
-FILES:${PN} += " \
-	${systemd_system_unitdir}/${BPN}.service \
-	/opt/aws/${BPN}/${BPN} \
-	/opt/aws/${BPN}/etc/.gitkeep \
-	/opt/aws/${BPN}/logs/.gitkeep \
+FILES:${PN} += "\
+    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/${BPN}.service \
+    /opt/aws/${BPN}/${BPN} \
+    /opt/aws/${BPN}/etc/.gitkeep \
+    /opt/aws/${BPN}/logs/.gitkeep \
 "
 
-BRANCH ?= "main"
-
-SRC_URI += "git://github.com/awslabs/${BPN};branch=${BRANCH};protocol=https"
-SRCREV = "9feebfa9facb6bfddade737de7a90bfbfd65cf6e"
-S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "\
+    python3-boto3 \
+    python3-psutil \
+    python3-requests \
+    python3-timeloop \
+"
 
 do_install() {
-	install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
-	install -d ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/etc
-	touch ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/etc/.gitkeep
-	install -d ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/logs
-	touch ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/logs/.gitkeep
-	install -m 744 ${BPN} ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/
-
-	# TODO: user and group should be cwpublisher/wheel
-	cat <<-EOF > ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/${BPN}.service
+    install -d ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}
+    install -d ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/etc
+    touch ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/etc/.gitkeep
+    install -d ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/logs
+    touch ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/logs/.gitkeep
+    install -m 744 ${BPN} ${D}/opt/aws/${BPN}/
+
+    # TODO: user and group should be cwpublisher/wheel
+    cat <<-EOF > ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/${BPN}.service
 [Unit]
 Description=Push metrics and logs to CloudWatch from any system that can run Python
 DefaultDependencies=no
diff --git a/recipes-cloud/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/files/run-ptest b/recipes-cloud/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/files/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b46a8c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-cloud/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/files/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -euxo pipefail
+
+cd /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher
+
+./amazon-cloudwatch-publisher &
+sleep 30
+grep "Instance ID is" /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher/logs/amazon-cloudwatch-publisher.log
+
+RETVAL=$?
+if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] ; then
+    echo "PASS: amazon-cloudwatch-publisher: startup test"
+else
+    echo "FAIL: amazon-cloudwatch-publisher: startup test"
+fi
diff --git a/recipes-external/python3-timeloop/python3-timeloop_1.0.2.bb b/recipes-external/python3-timeloop/python3-timeloop_1.0.2.bb
index 88b5e6c3f..09d254787 100644
--- a/recipes-external/python3-timeloop/python3-timeloop_1.0.2.bb
+++ b/recipes-external/python3-timeloop/python3-timeloop_1.0.2.bb
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 SUMMARY = "Timeloop"
-DESCRIPTION = ""
-HOMEPAGE = ""
+DESCRIPTION = "An elegant periodic task executor "
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/sankalpjonn/timeloop"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=030635eb18c38d9fd120c13a324721b7"
 
-inherit setuptools3
-
 SRC_URI = "git://github.com/sankalpjonn/timeloop.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
 SRCREV = "36ec5cbb133a6dcfb5316f59b5e11765c14e62c2"
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3-core"
+inherit setuptools3
 
+RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3-core"