diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6d0b68c76..646c021fa 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ target/
 .classpath
 .springBeans
 .sonar4clipse
-*.sonar4clipseExternals
\ No newline at end of file
+*.sonar4clipseExternals
+*.graphml
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ba6948c95..4ffa5540e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -155,6 +155,12 @@
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>de.schauderhaft.degraph</groupId>
+            <artifactId>degraph-check</artifactId>
+            <version>0.1.4</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
 
     </dependencies>
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/degraph/DependencyTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/degraph/DependencyTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..12baf9b99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jdbc/degraph/DependencyTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2017 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.springframework.data.jdbc.degraph;
+import static de.schauderhaft.degraph.check.JCheck.classpath;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import de.schauderhaft.degraph.check.JCheck;
+
+/**
+ * @author Jens Schauder
+ */
+public class DependencyTests {
+
+	@Test public void test() {
+		assertThat(	classpath()
+				.noJars()
+				.including("org.springframework.data.jdbc.**")
+				.filterClasspath("*target/classes")
+				.printOnFailure("degraph.graphml"), JCheck.violationFree());
+
+	}
+
+}