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 See the integration instructions in the [astronauth repo](https://git.astron.nl/astron-sdc/astronauth)
 
+### Running tests
+
+To run tests, you can spin up a dedicated test database locally using the the provided `docker-compose-ci.yml` file. This test database will not interfere with your local development database. For example, you can run this command from the `atdb/docker` folder:
+
+` docker compose -f .\docker-compose-ci.yml up -d`
+
+After spinning up the database, you can execute the tests with the following command:
+
+`python manage.py test --settings atdb.settings.ci`
+
+Dedicated settings for running the tests are provided in the `atdb/settings/ci.dev` file. For convenience, `test.bat` is provided to run the above command (Windows only).
+
+Finally, these tests are also executed in the CI pipeline through the test stage in the `.gitlab-ci.yml` file.
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