diff --git a/tools/travis/build.sh b/tools/travis/build.sh
index 9d2e12e..b53f990 100755
--- a/tools/travis/build.sh
+++ b/tools/travis/build.sh
@@ -23,11 +23,16 @@
 SCRIPTDIR=$(cd $(dirname "$0") && pwd)
 ROOTDIR="$SCRIPTDIR/../.."
 WHISKDIR="$ROOTDIR/../openwhisk"
+UTILDIR="$ROOTDIR/../incubator-openwhisk-utilities"
 
 export OPENWHISK_HOME=$WHISKDIR
 
 IMAGE_PREFIX="testing"
 
+# run scancode using the ASF Release configuration
+cd $UTILDIR
+scancode/scanCode.py --config scancode/ASF-Release.cfg $ROOTDIR
+
 # Build OpenWhisk
 cd $WHISKDIR
 
diff --git a/tools/travis/setup.sh b/tools/travis/setup.sh
index 1da8c03..3424cdb 100755
--- a/tools/travis/setup.sh
+++ b/tools/travis/setup.sh
@@ -24,9 +24,11 @@
 ROOTDIR="$SCRIPTDIR/../.."
 HOMEDIR="$SCRIPTDIR/../../../"
 
-# OpenWhisk stuff
+# clone OpenWhisk utilities repo. in order to run scanCode
 cd $HOMEDIR
+git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-utilities.git
+
+# clone main openwhisk repo. for testing purposes
 git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk.git openwhisk
 cd openwhisk
 ./tools/travis/setup.sh
-