From a3fe1dff1fe24f8de7c9155b1d2884e817b34cf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Hemsted <leo.hemsted@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 14:30:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] include section on testing in readme.md

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 README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8d31a6be3..0142f62f8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -72,6 +72,22 @@ scripts/run_celery_beat.sh
 ```
 
 
+
+##  To test the application
+
+First, ensure that `scripts/boostrap.sh` has been run, as it creates the test database.
+
+Then simply run
+
+```
+make test
+```
+
+That will run pep8 for code analysis and our unit test suite. If you wish to run our functional tests, instructions can be found in the
+[notifications-functional-test](https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-functional-test) repository.
+
+
+
 ## To remove functional test data
 
 NOTE: There is assumption that both the server name prefix and user name prefix are followed by a uuid.