-## Executing Tests
-
-All tests are located in the `\test` directory.
-
-### Preparing the test database
-
-Some of the behavioural test expect a test database to be present. You need at
-least 2GB RAM and 10GB disk space to create the database.
-
-First create a separate directory for the test DB and Fetch the test planet
-data and the Tiger data for South Dakota:
-
-```
-mkdir testdb
-cd testdb
-wget https://www.nominatim.org/data/test/nominatim-api-testdata.pbf
-wget -O - https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2018-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz | tar xz --wildcards --no-anchored '46*'
-```
-
-Configure and build Nominatim in the usual way:
-
-```
-cmake $USERNAME/Nominatim
-make
-```
-
-Copy the test settings:
+The source code for Nominatim can be found in the `src` directory and can
+be run in-place. The source directory features a special script
+`nominatim-cli.py` which does the same as the installed 'nominatim' binary
+but executes against the code in the source tree. For example: