diff --git a/.luacheckrc b/.luacheckrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0a5d001356
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.luacheckrc
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+-- Use the default LuaJIT globals.
+std = 'luajit'
+-- This fork also introduces a new global for misc API namespace.
+read_globals = { 'misc' }
+
+-- These files are inherited from the vanilla LuaJIT and need to
+-- be coherent with the upstream.
+exclude_files = {
+  'dynasm/',
+  'src/',
+}
diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 471e00df67..d166c9d88a 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,35 @@
 # See the rationale in the root CMakeLists.txt.
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1 FATAL_ERROR)
 
+find_program(LUACHECK luacheck)
+if(LUACHECK)
+  set(LUACHECK_RC ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/.luacheckrc)
+  file(GLOB_RECURSE LUACHECK_DEPS ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/*.lua)
+  add_custom_target(${PROJECT_NAME}-luacheck
+    DEPENDS ${LUACHECK_RC} ${LUACHECK_DEPS}
+  )
+  add_custom_command(TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}-luacheck
+    COMMENT "Running luacheck static analysis"
+    COMMAND
+      ${LUACHECK} ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
+        --codes
+        --config ${LUACHECK_RC}
+        # XXX: jit/vmdef.lua is an autogenerated Lua source, so
+        # there is no need to run luacheck against it. Hence
+        # explicitly exclude this file from the list for check.
+        --exclude-files ${LUAJIT_BINARY_DIR}/jit/vmdef.lua
+    # XXX: Filenames in .luacheckrc are considered relative to
+    # the working directory, hence luacheck should be run in the
+    # project root directory.
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
+  )
+else()
+  add_custom_target(${PROJECT_NAME}-luacheck)
+  add_custom_command(TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME}-luacheck
+    COMMENT "`luacheck' is not found, so ${PROJECT_NAME}-luacheck target is dummy"
+  )
+endif()
+
 add_subdirectory(tarantool-tests)
 
 add_custom_target(${PROJECT_NAME}-test DEPENDS
@@ -24,5 +53,6 @@ if(LUAJIT_USE_TEST)
 
   add_custom_target(test DEPENDS
     ${PROJECT_NAME}-test
+    ${PROJECT_NAME}-luacheck
   )
 endif()