diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -63,14 +63,25 @@ for more [info](https://github.com/inventaire/entities-search-engine/blob/master
 
 In case you would like to play with out-of-the-box data.
 
-Run api tests to populate tests dbs:
-
+Run api tests to populate tests dbs (see Tests section)
 ```
-docker-compose exec inventaire npm run test-api
+`docker-compose -f docker-compose-test.yml exec inventaire npm run test-api`
 ```
 
 - Replicate `*-tests` dbs documents into `*` dbs
 
 ```
-docker-compose exec inventaire npm run replicate-tests-db
+`docker-compose exec inventaire npm run replicate-tests-db`
 ```
+
+## Test environement
+
+Start docker-compose-test `docker-compose -f docker-compose-test.yml up`
+
+Execute tests script
+
+`docker-compose exec inventaire npm run test-api`
+
+or execute directly the test command
+
+`docker-compose exec inventaire ./node_modules/.bin/mocha --compilers coffee:coffee-script/register --timeout 20000`
diff --git a/docker-compose-test.yml b/docker-compose-test.yml
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/docker-compose-test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+version: '3'
+services:
+  couch:
+    image: couchdb:1.7.1
+    ports:
+      - "5984:5984"
+    environment:
+      COUCHDB_USER: "couchdb"
+      COUCHDB_PASSWORD: "password"
+    volumes:
+      # backup folder when container is removed
+      - './data/couch-test:/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb'
+  inventaire:
+    build:
+      context: ./.
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile.inventaire
+    environment:
+      NODE_ENV: "tests"
+      NODE_APP_INSTANCE: "tests-alt"
+    ports:
+      - "3006:3006"
+    volumes:
+      - ./inventaire:/opt/inventaire
+      - ./utils/config/inventaire-local.coffee:/opt/inventaire/config/local.coffee
+    working_dir: /opt/inventaire
+    depends_on:
+      - couch
+      - entities-search-engine
+  elasticsearch:
+    image: elasticsearch
+    environment:
+      - 'http.host=0.0.0.0'
+      - 'transport.host=127.0.0.1'
+    ports :
+      - '127.0.0.1:9200:9200'
+    volumes:
+      - './data/es:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data'
+  entities-search-engine:
+    image: node:8
+    command: 'node_modules/coffee-script/bin/coffee server/server.coffee'
+    ports:
+      - "3213:3213"
+    volumes:
+      - ./entities-search-engine:/opt/entities-search-engine
+      - ./utils/config/entities-search-engine-local.coffee:/opt/entities-search-engine/config/local.coffee
+    links:
+      - couch
+    working_dir: /opt/entities-search-engine