From 7be4bc819097ce2b0235986182b5253f6cba3c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chrishalcrow <chrishalcrow@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 14:34:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add test data description

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 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3d5a15f4..bc470f4b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ pip install .
 
 You'll then need to install the appropriate backends yourself (`pyqtgraph` and `PySide6` or `PyQt5` for the desktop; `panel` and `bokeh` for web).
 
+To test that your installation works, you can run any script in our `test` directory. This will run the GUI on some synthetic test data. E.g. from the `spikeinterface-gui` folder, you could run
+
+```bash
+python spikeinterface_gui/tests/test_mainwindow_qt.py
+```
 
 # Main usage