diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e159c4fe2..5461a64a5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -39,3 +39,21 @@ ehthumbs.db
 # Chart dependencies
 /helm/wekan/**/*.tgz
 /helm/wekan/charts
+
+
+# Python virtual environment
+venv/
+.venv/
+__pycache__/
+*.pyc
+*.pyo
+*.pyd
+.Python
+env/
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+.tox/
+.pytest_cache/
+*.egg-info/
+.coverage
+htmlcov/
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 250b9671f..4447f2dae 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues"
   },
   "homepage": "https://wekan.github.io",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test:python": "python -m pytest tests/ -v -s",
+    "test:auth": "python -m pytest tests/auth/test_login.py -v"
+  },
   "devDependencies": {
     "flatted": "^3.3.1",
     "sinon": "^13.0.2"
diff --git a/pytest.ini b/pytest.ini
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index 000000000..5ee647716
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pytest.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[pytest]
+testpaths = tests
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a8f7fc256
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pytest==7.4.3
+requests==2.31.0
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
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index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/tests/auth/__init__.py b/tests/auth/__init__.py
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index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/tests/auth/test_login.py b/tests/auth/test_login.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..38c8caedf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/auth/test_login.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import pytest
+import requests
+import os
+
+BASE_URL = os.getenv('WEKAN_URL', 'http://localhost:3000')
+TEST_USERNAME = 'testuser'
+TEST_PASSWORD = 'testpass123'
+TEST_EMAIL = 'test@example.com'
+
+base_url="http://10.0.0.17/"
+class TestLogin:
+
+  def test_health_check(self):
+    """Test basic health check"""
+    response = requests.get(f"{base_url}")
+    # assert response.status_code == 400
+    print("**************",response.status_code)
+    assert response.status_code == 200