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 This is the **CaosDB Python Integration Tests** repository and a part of the
 CaosDB project.
 
+# Getting started #
+
+To run tests, start up a CaosDB server (documentation for this can be found
+elsewhere). Then modify `pycaosdb.ini.template` accordingly and save it as
+`pycaosdb.ini`.  Then you can run the tests with `pytest` or `pytest-3`
+(depending on your system).
+
+If you want to run just a single test, you can also select a single test file:
+`pytest-3 tests/test_issues.py`
 
 # Further Reading