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 Feel free to submit pull requests. Please follow the [Code Conventions](CONVENTIONS.md) when doing so.
 
+
+### Testing
+
+Testing requires the [pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/) library.
+
+Run tests with the following command:
+
+```sh
+pytest test
+```
+
+Test coverage can be run using the [`pytest-cov`](https://pypi.org/project/pytest-cov/) extension:
+
+```sh
+pytest --cov=fin_defs test
+```
+
+
 ## License
 
 ```