diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 11cf1f5..1ca8486 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@
 .RData
 .Ruserdata
 .positai
+.png
+man
+docs
+pkgdown
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index ca45268..8cca336 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -41,4 +41,6 @@ License: Commercial, all rights reserved
 Encoding: UTF-8
 LazyData: true
 Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
-
+Suggests: 
+    testthat (>= 3.0.0)
+Config/testthat/edition: 3
diff --git a/tests/testthat.R b/tests/testthat.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09ab410
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat.R
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# This file is part of the standard setup for testthat.
+# It is recommended that you do not modify it.
+#
+# Where should you do additional test configuration?
+# Learn more about the roles of various files in:
+# * https://r-pkgs.org/testing-design.html#sec-tests-files-overview
+# * https://testthat.r-lib.org/articles/special-files.html
+
+library(testthat)
+library(DashboardApp)
+
+test_check("DashboardApp")
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-backend.R b/tests/testthat/test-backend.R
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8849056
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-backend.R
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+test_that("multiplication works", {
+  expect_equal(2 * 2, 4)
+})