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 VuFind is an open source discovery environment for searching a collection of
 records.  To learn more, visit http://vufind.org.
 
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 Installation
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-See online documentation at http://vufind.org/wiki/vufind2:installation_notes
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+See online documentation at http://vufind.org/wiki/vufind2:installation_notes
+
+Testing
+-------
+
+For performing all ci-tasks you have to add all dev-dependencies. Do so like this
+
+    php composer.phar update
+
+this adds all necessary tools like phing, phpunit, etc.
+
+After that you can perform the task with the following command:
+
+    phing
+
+Be aware that you will need several programs like java and mysql to setup a solr-index and a database-store in order to
+test the components of vufind that communicate with them.
+
+You might need to set up the mysql-user credentials, if case they do not agree with your mysql root-users credentials.
+You can do that by providing optional parameters like that
+
+    phing -Dmysqlrootpass=''
+
+Do so if you have no rootpassword set. The default password is 'password'.
+
+Modules
+-------
+
+* all non-global non-community modules go to
+
+        module/finc/