diff --git a/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/config.yaml b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/config.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..84ee4c75599
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/config.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+config:
+  cwd: './'
+  timeout_session: 6000
+
+product:
+  name: "ntfc-sim"
+  cores:
+    core0:
+      name: 'main'
+      device: 'sim'
+      conf_path: './.config'
+      elf_path: './nuttx'
diff --git a/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/defconfig b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/defconfig
index b8202578eef..6f371fb9a46 100644
--- a/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/defconfig
+++ b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/defconfig
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ CONFIG_START_YEAR=2008
 CONFIG_SYSTEM_DUMPSTACK=y
 CONFIG_SYSTEM_NSH=y
 CONFIG_SYSTEM_POPEN=y
+CONFIG_SYSTEM_SETLOGMASK=y
 CONFIG_TESTING_CMOCKA=y
 CONFIG_TESTING_CXXTEST=y
 CONFIG_TESTING_DRIVER_TEST=y
diff --git a/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/run b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/run
deleted file mode 120000
index c9e283cbeb0..00000000000
--- a/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/run
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../../../../../tools/ci/cirun.sh
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/run b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/run
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..0fddb7b01bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/run
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+############################################################################
+# boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/run.sh
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.  The
+# ASF licenses this file to you 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.
+#
+############################################################################
+
+set -o xtrace
+
+# start from nuttx dir
+olddir=$(pwd)
+nuttdir=${CURRENTCONFDIR}/../../../../../../
+cd ${nuttdir}
+
+# enable venv
+source ${NTFCDIR}/venv/bin/activate
+
+# run NTFC
+confpath=${CURRENTCONFDIR}/config.yaml
+jsonconf=${CURRENTCONFDIR}/session.json
+testpath=${NTFCDIR}/external/nuttx-testing
+python3 -m ntfc test --testpath=${testpath} --confpath=${confpath} --jsonconf=${jsonconf}
+
+ret="$?"
+echo $ret
+
+# disable venv
+deactivate
+
+# export test results
+artifacts=${ARTIFACTCONFDIR}/ntfc
+mkdir -p ${artifacts}
+mv pytest.debug.log ${artifacts}
+mv result ${artifacts}
+
+# restore old dir
+cd ${olddir}
+
+exit $ret
diff --git a/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/session.json b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/session.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..df9d9cbd86e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/boards/sim/sim/sim/configs/citest/session.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+    "module": {
+        "include_module": [],
+        "exclude_module":
+        [
+            "Nuttx_System_Driver_Pm",
+            "Nuttx_System_Fs_Fs"
+        ],
+        "order": []
+    },
+    "args": {
+        "kv": []
+    }
+}