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+# Tendermint Tests
+
+The unit tests (ie. the `go test` s) can be run with `make test`.
+The integration tests can be run wtih `make test_integrations`.
+
+Running the integrations test will build a docker container with latest tendermint
+and run the following tests in docker containers:
+
+- go tests, with --race
+- app tests
+	- dummy app over socket
+	- counter app over socket
+	- counter app over grpc
+- p2p tests
+	- start a local dummy app testnet on a docker network (requires docker version 1.10+)
+	- send a tx on each node and ensure the state root is updated on all of them
+
+If on a `release-x.x.x` branch, we also run
+
+- `go test` for all our dependency libs (test/test_libs.sh)
+- network_testing - benchmark a mintnet based cloud deploy using netmon
+
+# Coverage
+
+TODO!
+
+
+