bigchaindb/docs/source/running-unit-tests.md
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# Running Unit Tests
Once you've installed BigchainDB Server, you may want to run all the unit tests. This section explains how.
First of all, if you installed BigchainDB Server using `pip` (i.e. by getting the package from PyPI), then you didn't install the tests. **Before you can run all the unit tests, you must [install BigchainDB from source](installing-server.html#how-to-install-bigchaindb-from-source).**
To run all the unit tests, first make sure you have RethinkDB running:
```text
$ rethinkdb
```
then in another terminal, do:
```text
$ python setup.py test
```
(Aside: How does the above command work? The documentation for [pytest-runner](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-runner) explains. We use [pytest](http://pytest.org/latest/) to write all unit tests.)
### Using docker-compose to Run the Tests
You can also use `docker-compose` to run the unit tests.
Start `RethinkDB` in the background:
```text
$ docker-compose up -d rdb
```
then run the unit tests using:
```text
$ docker-compose run --rm bdb py.test -v
```