This page briefly describes how to run the test suite.
This is useful for contributors, for packagers but also for users who wants to check their environment.
Virtualenv
You can make a virtualenv. I like pew for that because the API is easier.
The first time, you need to make a virtualenv
pew mkproject libbmc
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install
nosetest
If you already have a virtualenv, you can use workon