diff --git a/stages/test/test_bootupd.py b/stages/test/test_bootupd.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import os.path
+import subprocess
+from unittest import mock
+
+import pytest
+
+import osbuild.meta
+from osbuild.testutil import has_executable, make_fake_input_tree
+from osbuild.testutil.imports import import_module_from_path
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("test_data,expected_err", [
+    # bad
+    ({"deployment": "totally"}, "'totally' is not of type 'object'"),
+    ({"deployment": {"osname": "some-os"}}, "'ref' is a required property"),
+    ({"deployment": {"ref": "some-ref"}}, "'osname' is a required property"),
+    ({"deployment": {"osname": "some-os", "ref": "some-ref", "serial": "yo"}}, "'yo' is not of type 'number'"),
+    ({"random": "property"}, "Additional properties are not allowed"),
+    ({"bios": {}}, "'device' is a required property"),
+    ({"bios": "yes"}, "'yes' is not of type 'object'"),
+    # good
+    ({}, ""),
+    ({"deployment": {
+          "osname": "some-os",
+          "ref": "some-ref",
+          "serial": 1,
+      },
+      "static-configs": True,
+      "bios": {
+          "device": "/dev/sda",
+      }}, "")
+
+])
+def test_schema_validation_bootupd(test_data, expected_err):
+    name = "org.osbuild.bootupd"
+    root = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../..")
+    mod_info = osbuild.meta.ModuleInfo.load(root, "Stage", name)
+    schema = osbuild.meta.Schema(mod_info.get_schema(version="2"), name)
+
+    test_input = {
+        "type": "org.osbuild.bootupd",
+        "options": {
+        }
+    }
+    test_input["options"].update(test_data)
+    res = schema.validate(test_input)
+
+    if expected_err == "":
+        assert res.valid is True, f"err: {[e.as_dict() for e in res.errors]}"
+    else:
+        assert res.valid is False
+        assert len(res.errors) == 1, [e.as_dict() for e in res.errors]
+        err_msgs = [e.as_dict()["message"] for e in res.errors]
+        assert expected_err in err_msgs[0]