diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 6ae9b2ca1c8b573735e188c020ff1f5afdd19728..0ab797b12027a56786a5464f6376ccec9350719c 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "coreblas/hmat-oss"]
 	path = coreblas/hmat-oss
 	url = https://github.com/jeromerobert/hmat-oss.git
+[submodule "testing/test_fembem"]
+	path = testing/test_fembem
+	url = https://gitlab.inria.fr/solverstack/test_fembem.git
diff --git a/testing/test_fembem b/testing/test_fembem
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..59d1983493a95ec483b4d931afcc70b687474aa5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/test_fembem
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 59d1983493a95ec483b4d931afcc70b687474aa5