Document how to run tests on your computer

README.rst

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 Testing
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-To run the tests you will need `py.test <http://pytest.org/latest/>`__ and `pytest-django <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-django>`__
+To run the tests you will need the following in addition to install requirements:
+
+* `py.test <http://pytest.org/latest/>`__
+* `pytest-django <https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-django>`__
+* disque from https://github.com/antirez/disque.git
+* Redis
+* MongoDB
+
+The following commands can be used to run the tests:
+
+```
+# Create virtual environment
+python -m venv venv
+
+# Install requirements
+venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+# Install test dependencies
+venv/bin/pip install pytest pytest-django
+
+# Install django-q
+venv/bin/python setup.py develop
+
+
+# Run required services (you need to have docker-compose installed)
+docker-compose -f test-services-docker-compose.yaml up -d
+
+# Run tests
+venv/bin/pytest
+
+# Stop the services required by tests (when you no longer plan to run tests)
+docker-compose -f test-services-docker-compose.yaml down
+
+```
 
 
 Locale

test-services-docker-compose.yaml

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+version: '2.2'
+
+services:
+  disque:
+    image: efrecon/disque:1.0-rc1
+    ports:
+      - '7711:7711/tcp'
+
+  redis:
+    image: redis:latest
+    ports:
+      - '6379:6379/tcp'
+
+  mongo:
+    image: mongo:4
+    ports:
+      - '27017:27017/tcp'