diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6d9867a1a1..7bba7bef86 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ install:
 
 script:
 - TRACE=1 ./test.sh
+- ./scripts/install_test.sh
 
 # TBD. Suppressing for now.
 notifications:
diff --git a/scripts/install.sh b/scripts/install.sh
index f75273df6e..4d2ddb5b05 100755
--- a/scripts/install.sh
+++ b/scripts/install.sh
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ command_exists tar
 if [ "x${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}" = "x" ] ; then
   KUBEBUILDER_VERSION=$(curl -L -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes-sigs/kubebuilder/releases/latest | \
                   grep tag_name | sed "s/ *\"tag_name\": *\"\\(.*\\)\",*/\\1/")
+  if [ -z "$KUBEBUILDER_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "\nUnable to fetch the latest version tag. This may be due to network access problem"
+    exit 0
+  fi
 fi
 
 KUBEBUILDER_VERSION=${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION#"v"}
diff --git a/scripts/install_test.sh b/scripts/install_test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..91ec0b8e51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/install_test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+source ./scripts/install.sh
+
+echo "Start test"
+
+if [ -z "$KUBEBUILDER_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "\nUnable to fetch the latest version tag. Quit the test"
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+echo "1. Check whether $TMP_DIR folder is removed.\n"
+if [ -d "$TMP_DIR" ]; then
+  echo "$TMP_DIR folder is not removed."
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "passed\n"
+
+echo "2. Check whether $KUBEBUILDER_DIR folder exists.\n"
+if [ ! -d "$KUBEBUILDER_DIR" ]; then
+  echo "$KUBEBUILDER_DIR folder is not existed."
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "passed\n"
+
+echo "3. Check whether kubebuilder is installed properly.\n"
+if [ ! -x "$KUBEBUILDER_DIR/bin/kubebuilder" ]; then
+  echo "$KUBEBUILDER_DIR/bin/kubebuilder is not existed or execute permission not granted."
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "passed\n"
+
+echo "4. Check whether kubebuilder version is same as installed.\n"
+KUBEBUILDER_VERSION_FROM_BIN=$($KUBEBUILDER_DIR/bin/kubebuilder version | \
+      sed 's/^.*KubeBuilderVersion:"\(.*\)", KubernetesVendor.*$/\1/')
+if [ ! "${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION_FROM_BIN}" = "${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION}" ]; then
+  echo "kubebuilder version ${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION_FROM_BIN} mismatched from the version installed (${KUBEBUILDER_VERSION})"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "passed\n"
+
+echo "install test done successfully\n"
+exit 0