diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2af2956
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Config file for automatic testing at travis-ci.org
+sudo: true  # http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/migrating-from-legacy/
+language: python
+python:
+  - 2.7
+install: 
+  - sudo ./travis_install.sh
+  - sudo ./tests/installTestDb.sh
+script: 
+  - nose2 -v
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diff --git a/install/install.sh b/install/install.sh
index 5ad7590..949df16 100755
--- a/install/install.sh
+++ b/install/install.sh
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ DATABASE_URI = '${config_db_uri}'
 COLLECTOR_UDP_PORT = ${config_collector_udp}
 COLLECTOR_SSL_PORT = ${config_collector_ssl}
 NETWORK_INTERFACE = ${network_interface}
+TESTING = False
 " > "${dir}/../config.py"
 echo "* Making necessary scripts executable (if they aren't already)"
 chmod +x "${dir}/../bin/pipotd" "${dir}/../bin/create_image.sh" "${dir}/../../client/bin/chroot.sh" >> "$install_log" 2>&1
diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index 5e1abba..02bef6b 100644
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ def install_secret_keys(application, secret_session='secret_key',
     if do_exit:
         sys.exit(1)
 
-install_secret_keys(app)
+
+if not app.config['TESTING']:
+    install_secret_keys(app)
 
 
 # Expose submenu method for jinja templates
diff --git a/tests/installTestDb.sh b/tests/installTestDb.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..5545582
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/installTestDb.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+dir=$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )
+date=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
+install_log="${dir}/TestDbSetUp_${date}_log.txt"
+read -e -p "Password of the 'root' user of MySQL: " -i "" db_root_password
+# Verify password
+while ! mysql -u root --password="${db_root_password}"  -e ";" ; do
+       read -e -p "Invalid password, please retry: " -i "" db_root_password
+done
+db_user="pipot"
+db_name="pipotTest"
+mysql -u root --password="${db_root_password}" -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS ${db_name};" >> "$install_log" 2>&1
+# Check if DB exists
+db_exists=`mysql -u root --password="${db_root_password}" -se"USE ${db_name};" 2>&1`
+if [ ! "${db_exists}" == "" ]; then
+    echo "Failed to create the database! Please check the installation log!"
+    exit -1
+fi
+# Check if user exists
+db_user_exists=`mysql -u root --password="${db_root_password}" -sse "SELECT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM mysql.user WHERE user = '${db_user}')"`
+db_user_password=""
+if [ ${db_user_exists} = 0 ]; then
+    rand_pass=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 16 | head -n 1)
+    read -e -p "Password for ${db_user} (will be created): " -i "${rand_pass}" db_user_password
+    # Attempt to create the user
+    mysql -u root --password="$db_root_password" -e "CREATE USER '${db_user}'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '${db_user_password}';" >> "$install_log" 2>&1
+    db_user_exists=`mysql -u root --password="$db_root_password" -sse "SELECT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM mysql.user WHERE user = '$db_user')"`
+    if [ ${db_user_exists} = 0 ]; then
+        echo "Failed to create the user! Please check the installation log!"
+        exit -1
+    fi
+else
+    read -e -p "Password for ${db_user}: " db_user_password
+    # Check if we have access
+    while ! mysql -u "${db_user}" --password="${db_user_password}"  -e ";" ; do
+       read -e -p "Invalid password, please retry: " -i "" db_user_password
+    done
+fi
+# Grant user access to database
+mysql -u root --password="${db_root_password}" -e "GRANT ALL ON ${db_name}.* TO '${db_user}'@'localhost';" >> "$install_log" 2>&1
+# Check if user has access
+db_access=`mysql -u "${db_user}" --password="${db_user_password}" -se"USE ${db_name};" 2>&1`
+if [ ! "${db_access}" == "" ]; then
+    echo "Failed to grant user access to database! Please check the installation log!"
+    exit -1
+fi
+
+echo "# Auto-generated configuration by installTestDb.sh
+DATABASE_URI = 'mysql+pymysql://${db_user}:${db_user_password}@localhost:3306/${db_name}'
+" > "${dir}/tests/config.py"
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diff --git a/tests/testAppBase.py b/tests/testAppBase.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2b39380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testAppBase.py
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+import os
+import sys
+import mock
+import unittest
+from mock import patch
+
+
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base, DeclarativeMeta
+from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker
+
+# Need to append server root path to ensure we can import the necessary files.
+sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+
+import tests.config
+from collections import namedtuple
+from flask import g, current_app
+from database import create_session, Base
+from mod_auth.models import User, Role, Page, PageAccess
+from mod_config.models import Service, Notification, Actions, Conditions, Rule
+from mod_honeypot.models import Profile, PiModels, PiPotReport, ProfileService, \
+    CollectorTypes, Deployment
+
+
+def generate_keys(tempdir):
+    secret_csrf_path = os.path.join(tempdir, "secret_csrf")
+    secret_key_path = os.path.join(tempdir, "secret_key")
+    if not os.path.exists(secret_csrf_path):
+        secret_csrf_cmd = "head -c 24 /dev/urandom > {path}".format(path=secret_csrf_path)
+        os.system(secret_csrf_cmd)
+    if not os.path.exists(secret_key_path):
+        secret_key_cmd = "head -c 24 /dev/urandom > {path}".format(path=secret_key_path)
+        os.system(secret_key_cmd)
+
+    return {'secret_csrf_path': secret_csrf_path, 'secret_key_path': secret_key_path}
+
+
+def load_config(tempdir):
+    key_paths = generate_keys(tempdir)
+    with open(key_paths['secret_key_path'], 'rb') as secret_key_file:
+        secret_key = secret_key_file.read()
+    with open(key_paths['secret_csrf_path'], 'rb') as secret_csrf_file:
+        secret_csrf = secret_csrf_file.read()
+
+    return {
+            'TESTING': True,
+            'WTF_CSRF_ENABLED': False,
+            'SQLALCHEMY_POOL_SIZE': 1,
+            'SECRET_KEY': secret_key,
+            'CSRF_SESSION_KEY': secret_csrf,
+            'SERVER_IP': '127.0.0.1',
+            'SERVER_PORT': 443,
+            'INSTANCE_NAME': 'testInstance',
+            'APPLICATION_ROOT': '/',
+            'CSRF_ENABLED': False,
+            'DATABASE_URI': tests.config.DATABASE_URI,
+            'COLLECTOR_UDP_PORT': 1234,
+            'COLLECTOR_SSL_PORT': 1235
+            }
+
+
+class TestAppBaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    tempdir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "temp")
+    
+    def create_app(self):
+        with patch('config_parser.parse_config', return_value=load_config(self.tempdir)):
+            from run import app
+            return app
+
+    def create_admin(self):
+        # test if there is admin existed
+        db = create_session(self.app.config['DATABASE_URI'], drop_tables=False)
+        role = Role(name="Admin")
+        db.add(role)
+        db.commit()
+        admin_user = User(role_id=role.id, name="Admin", password="admin", email="admin@sample.com")
+        db.add(admin_user)
+        db.commit()
+        db.remove()
+        return admin_user
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        if not os.path.exists(self.tempdir):
+            os.mkdir(self.tempdir)
+        self.app = self.create_app()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        db_engine = create_engine(self.app.config['DATABASE_URI'], convert_unicode=True)
+        Base.metadata.drop_all(bind=db_engine)
+
+    def test_app_is_running(self):
+        self.assertFalse(current_app is None)
+
+    def test_app_is_testing(self):
+        self.assertTrue(self.app.config['TESTING'])
+
+    def admin_is_created(self):
+        db = create_session(self.app.config['DATABASE_URI'], drop_tables=False)
+        admin_row = Role.query.filter(Role.is_admin).first()
+        admin = User.query.filter(User.role_id == admin_row.id).first()
+        db.remove()
+        return admin is not None
+
+    def test_create_admin(self):
+        self.create_admin()
+        self.assertTrue(self.admin_is_created())
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/tests/TestNestedMenus.py b/tests/testNestedMenus.py
similarity index 95%
rename from tests/TestNestedMenus.py
rename to tests/testNestedMenus.py
index 15de8d0..5f609a6 100644
--- a/tests/TestNestedMenus.py
+++ b/tests/testNestedMenus.py
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 import unittest
+import os
+import sys
 
 from mock import patch, call
-from server.decorators import get_menu_entries, get_permissible_entries
+# Need to append server root path to ensure we can import the necessary files.
+sys.path.append(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+
+from decorators import get_menu_entries, get_permissible_entries
 
 
 class TestGetMenuEntries(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @patch('mod_auth.models.User')
-    @patch('server.decorators.get_permissible_entries')
+    @patch('decorators.get_permissible_entries')
     def test_get_menu_entries_with_simple_entries(self, mock_permissible_entries, mock_user):
         """
         Passing a menu entry to get_menu_entries() when all the
@@ -59,7 +64,7 @@ def side_effect(*args):
         mock_permissible_entries.assert_has_calls(calls)  # Check that mocked function correctly called
 
     @patch('mod_auth.models.User')
-    @patch('server.decorators.get_permissible_entries')
+    @patch('decorators.get_permissible_entries')
     def test_get_menu_entries_with_no_permissions(self, mock_permissible_entries, mock_user):
         """
         Passing a menu entry to get_menu_entries() when user is not
@@ -158,3 +163,7 @@ def side_effect(*args):
              'entries': [{'title': 'Honeypot services', 'route': 'config.services', 'icon': 'sliders'}],
              'icon': 'bell-o'}], 'icon': 'bell-o'}
         self.assertDictEqual(entries, correct_entries)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/travis_install.sh b/travis_install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..83556db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis_install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+echo "-------------------------------"
+echo "|   Installing dependencies   |"
+echo "-------------------------------"
+echo ""
+echo "* Updating package list        "
+apt-get update
+echo "* Installing nginx, python & pip      "
+
+apt-get -q -y install dnsutils nginx python python-dev python-pip
+
+if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu" ]]; then
+    apt-get -q -y install build-essential libffi-dev libssl-dev
+fi
+if [ ! -f /etc/init.d/mysql* ]; then
+    echo "* Installing MySQL (root password will be empty!)"
+    DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y mysql-server
+fi
+echo "* Update setuptools            "
+pip install --upgrade setuptools
+echo "* Installing pip dependencies"
+pip install nose2 mock ipaddress enum34 cryptography idna sqlalchemy twisted pyopenssl flask-sqlalchemy flask passlib pymysql service_identity pycrypto flask-wtf netifaces gunicorn
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