diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index a969da3..462434d 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -2,9 +2,16 @@ kind: pipeline
 name: default
 
 steps:
+- name: launch couch
+  image: couchdb:2.3
+  environment:
+    COUCHDB_USER: admin
+    COUCHDB_PASSWORD: password
+
 - name: test
   image: python:3.6
   commands:
+  - export HUMULUS_SETTINGS="$(pwd)/testsettings.py"
   - pip install coverage pytest
   - pip install -e .
   - coverage run -m pytest
diff --git a/testsettings.py b/testsettings.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf6c7cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testsettings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+FLASK_DEBUG = 1
+SECRET_KEY = b'dev'
+FLASK_ENV = 'development'
+TEMPLATES_AUTO_RELOAD = True
+
+COUCH_URL='http://localhost:5984'
+COUCH_USERNAME='admin'
+COUCH_PASSWORD='password'
+COUCH_DATABASE='humulus'