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 More details can be found at our [documentation](https://ai-multimodal.github.io/Lightshow/installation.html).
 
+## Running tests
+
+Tests can be run via `pytest`. After local installation, simply use
+
+```bash
+pytest lightshow/_tests
+```
+
 
 # Contributing