diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -108,3 +108,8 @@ typings/
 
 # IDE files/dirs
 .vscode
+
+# Exclude python test artifacts
+/act
+/venv/*
+/tests/functional/__pycache__/*
diff --git a/tests/README.md b/tests/README.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Developing tests
+
+Current tests are written in Python 3 and will download [act](https://github.com/nektos/act) and create a Python virtual environment to run them in. To run these locally, from the root directory execute:
+```
+npm run build
+make check
+```