diff --git a/math/CMakeLists.txt b/math/CMakeLists.txt
index 2b70b2d3101..a3d01779e58 100644
--- a/math/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/math/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,14 +2,18 @@
 # with full pathname. RELATIVE may makes it easier to extract an executable name
 # automatically.
 file( GLOB APP_SOURCES RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} *.cpp )
-# file( GLOB APP_SOURCES ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/*.c )
-# AUX_SOURCE_DIRECTORY(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} APP_SOURCES)
+
+
 foreach( testsourcefile ${APP_SOURCES} )
-    # I used a simple string replace, to cut off .cpp.
+    # remove cpp from filename
     string( REPLACE ".cpp" "" testname ${testsourcefile} )
     add_executable( ${testname} ${testsourcefile} )
 
     set_target_properties(${testname} PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX)
+
+    # add test with the same name as file name
+    add_test(NAME ${testname} COMMAND ${testname})
+
     if(OpenMP_CXX_FOUND)
         target_link_libraries(${testname} OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX)
     endif()