diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c6b2e41..971a342 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ language: php
 sudo: required
 dist: trusty
 php:
-   - 5.6
-   - 7.0
+    - 7.1
 before_script:
     # some useful debugging stuff for travis
     #- curl http://magento-2-travis.dev/index.php
@@ -91,6 +90,21 @@ before_script:
     # test that magento is installed
     - curl "$PULSESTORM_MAGE2_FAKE_URL/index.php"
     - pestle.phar hello_world
+    # phpcs install and generating a module for same
+
+    # generate the code for phpcs
+    - ../travis/for-lint.sh
+
+    # leave m2 folder
+    - cd ..
+
+    # install phpcs
+    - mkdir phpcs/
+    - cd phpcs/
+    - echo "{}" > composer.json
+    - composer require magento/magento-coding-standard -vvv
+
+    # return to the base folder and composer install pestle
     - cd ..
     - composer install
 script:
@@ -99,3 +113,7 @@ script:
     # integration tests
     - cd magento2
     - vendor/bin/phpunit vendor/pulsestorm/pestle/tests-integration
+    # run phpcs
+    - cd ../phpcs
+    - find ../magento2/app/code/Pulsestorm
+    - vendor/bin/phpcs vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=vendor/magento/magento-coding-standard/Magento2/ ../magento2/app/code/Pulsestorm/Travis
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 20e60a0..2727765 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
     "require-dev": {
         "phpunit/phpunit": "4.8.*",
         "phing/phing": "2.*",
-        "phpspec/prophecy":"1.7.0"
+        "phpspec/prophecy":"1.7.0",
+        "magento/magento-coding-standard": "^4.0"
     },
     "autoload": {
         "files": ["library/autoload.php"]
diff --git a/composer.lock b/composer.lock
index 385dc84..bcb1f06 100644
--- a/composer.lock
+++ b/composer.lock
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 {
     "_readme": [
         "This file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state",
-        "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file",
+        "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
         "This file is @generated automatically"
     ],
-    "content-hash": "f7e992f30f75f6df9ac92aad130d4a36",
+    "content-hash": "31a780b3bc8f6061e1d5c11032d74538",
     "packages": [
         {
             "name": "abraham/twitteroauth",
@@ -886,6 +886,36 @@
             ],
             "time": "2015-06-14T21:17:01+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "magento/magento-coding-standard",
+            "version": "4",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/magento/magento-coding-standard.git",
+                "reference": "d24e0230a532e19941ed264f57db38fad5b1008a"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/magento/magento-coding-standard/zipball/d24e0230a532e19941ed264f57db38fad5b1008a",
+                "reference": "d24e0230a532e19941ed264f57db38fad5b1008a",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "php": ">=5.6.0",
+                "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^3.4"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.0 || ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^7.0"
+            },
+            "type": "phpcodesniffer-standard",
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "OSL-3.0",
+                "AFL-3.0"
+            ],
+            "description": "A set of Magento specific PHP CodeSniffer rules.",
+            "time": "2019-08-06T15:58:37+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "phing/phing",
             "version": "2.16.0",
@@ -1562,6 +1592,7 @@
                 "mock",
                 "xunit"
             ],
+            "abandoned": true,
             "time": "2015-10-02T06:51:40+00:00"
         },
         {
@@ -1936,6 +1967,57 @@
             "homepage": "https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/version",
             "time": "2015-06-21T13:59:46+00:00"
         },
+        {
+            "name": "squizlabs/php_codesniffer",
+            "version": "3.4.2",
+            "source": {
+                "type": "git",
+                "url": "https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer.git",
+                "reference": "b8a7362af1cc1aadb5bd36c3defc4dda2cf5f0a8"
+            },
+            "dist": {
+                "type": "zip",
+                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer/zipball/b8a7362af1cc1aadb5bd36c3defc4dda2cf5f0a8",
+                "reference": "b8a7362af1cc1aadb5bd36c3defc4dda2cf5f0a8",
+                "shasum": ""
+            },
+            "require": {
+                "ext-simplexml": "*",
+                "ext-tokenizer": "*",
+                "ext-xmlwriter": "*",
+                "php": ">=5.4.0"
+            },
+            "require-dev": {
+                "phpunit/phpunit": "^4.0 || ^5.0 || ^6.0 || ^7.0"
+            },
+            "bin": [
+                "bin/phpcs",
+                "bin/phpcbf"
+            ],
+            "type": "library",
+            "extra": {
+                "branch-alias": {
+                    "dev-master": "3.x-dev"
+                }
+            },
+            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
+            "license": [
+                "BSD-3-Clause"
+            ],
+            "authors": [
+                {
+                    "name": "Greg Sherwood",
+                    "role": "lead"
+                }
+            ],
+            "description": "PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer",
+            "keywords": [
+                "phpcs",
+                "standards"
+            ],
+            "time": "2019-04-10T23:49:02+00:00"
+        },
         {
             "name": "symfony/yaml",
             "version": "v3.3.13",
diff --git a/travis/for-lint.sh b/travis/for-lint.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..64ae6df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/for-lint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+## Our travis CI/CD will run this script from the root of a Magento
+## folder.  Put pestle commands here to generate code in the
+## Pulsestorm_Travis module.  At the end of the CI we'll run phpcs
+## against this folder to ensure generate code
+
+
+## putting some basic files in place so we can merge and tackle
+## the "phpcs-ification" of things in stages
+mkdir -p app/code/Pulsestorm/Travis
+printf "<?php\nnamespace Pulsestorm\\Travis;\n\nclass Foo\n{\n}\n"  > app/code/Pulsestorm/Travis/Test.php
+
+# pestle.phar magento2:generate:crud-model Pulsestorm_Travis Thing