diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d022592..99a9666 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ git:
 #    packages:
 #    - gfortran
 before_script: # homebrew for mac
-   - julia -e 'Pkg.add("Blink")'
+   - julia -e 'Pkg.add("Blink"); Pkg.build("Blink"); using Blink; Blink.AtomShell.install();'
 
 ## uncomment the following lines to override the default test script
 #script:
diff --git a/test/examples.jl b/test/examples.jl
index 8ce702f..d826a3b 100644
--- a/test/examples.jl
+++ b/test/examples.jl
@@ -5,9 +5,19 @@ build_app_jl = joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "build_app.jl")
 examples_blink = joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "examples", "blink.jl")
 examples_hello = joinpath(@__DIR__, "..", "examples", "hello.jl")
 
+builddir = mktempdir()
+@assert isdir(builddir)
+
 @testset "HelloWorld.app" begin
-@test success(`$julia $build_app_jl $examples_hello "HelloWorld"`)
-@test success(`./builddir/HelloWorld.app/Contents/MacOS/hello`)
+# Test the build_app.jl script.
+# `@test contains(readstring(cmd), "Done building")` tests that the command
+# runs, and that gets all the way to the end. This is prefereable to
+# `@test success(cmd)`, because `success` suppresses the cmd's output, so we
+# can't see where the test is failing.
+@test contains(readstring(`$julia $build_app_jl --verbose $examples_hello "HelloWorld" $builddir`),
+               "Done building")
+@test isdir("$builddir/HelloWorld.app")
+@test success(`$builddir/HelloWorld.app/Contents/MacOS/hello`)
 end
 
 @testset "HelloBlink.app" begin
@@ -15,14 +25,25 @@ blinkPkg = Pkg.dir("Blink")
 httpParserPkg = Pkg.dir("HttpParser")
 mbedTLSPkg = Pkg.dir("MbedTLS")
 
-@test success(`$julia $build_app_jl
-    -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "deps/Julia.app"))
-    -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "src/AtomShell/main.js"))
-    -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "src/content/main.html"))
-    -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "res"))
-    -L $(joinpath(httpParserPkg, "deps/usr/lib/libhttp_parser.dylib"))
-    -L $(joinpath(mbedTLSPkg, "deps/usr/lib/libmbedcrypto.2.7.1.dylib"))
-    $examples_blink "HelloBlink"`)
+@test contains(readstring(`$julia $build_app_jl --verbose
+            -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "deps/Julia.app"))
+            -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "src/AtomShell/main.js"))
+            -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "src/content/main.html"))
+            -R $(joinpath(blinkPkg, "res"))
+            -L $(joinpath(httpParserPkg, "deps/usr/lib/libhttp_parser.dylib"))
+            -L $(joinpath(mbedTLSPkg, "deps/usr/lib/libmbedcrypto.2.7.1.dylib"))
+            $examples_blink "HelloBlink" $builddir`),
+    "Done building")
+
+@test isdir("$builddir/HelloBlink.app")
+
+# Manually kill HelloBlink, since it waits for user input.
+@async begin
+    sleep(15) # wait til blink has started up
+    run(`pkill blink`)
+end
+try # expect failure due to pkill, so not really much to test.
+    run(`$builddir/HelloBlink.app/Contents/MacOS/blink`)
+end
 
-@test success(`./builddir/HelloBlink.app/Contents/MacOS/blink`)
 end