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+# Seafile Server Tests
+
+## Run it locally
+
+To run the tests, you need to install pytest first:
+
+```sh
+pip install -r ci/requirements.txt
+```
+
+Then run the tests with
+```sh
+./run_tests.sh
+```
+
+By default the test script would try to start ccnet-server and seaf-server in `/usr/local/bin`, if you `make install` to another location, say `/opt/local`, run it like this:
+```sh
+SEAFILE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/local ./run_tests.sh
+```
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 termcolor>=1.1.0
 requests>=2.8.0
-httpie>=0.9.9
 pytest>=3.3.2
 backports.functools_lru_cache>=1.4
 tenacity>=4.8.0