diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63c9412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Config file for automatic testing at travis-ci.org
+
+language: python
+python: 2.7
+
+# command to install dependencies, e.g. pip install -r requirements.txt --use-mirrors
+install:
+  - pip install Scrapy docopt
+
+# command to run tests, e.g. python setup.py test
+script:
+  - nosetests tests
+
+notifications:
+  slack: descartes2:6sgCzx3PvrO9IIMwKxj12dDM
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diff --git a/FourmiCrawler/pipelines.py b/FourmiCrawler/pipelines.py
index 0d4a405..55b0f49 100644
--- a/FourmiCrawler/pipelines.py
+++ b/FourmiCrawler/pipelines.py
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ import re
 
 from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem
 
+
 class RemoveNonePipeline(object):
-
     def __init__(self):
-        self.known_values = set()
+        pass
 
-    def process_item(self, item, spider):
+    @staticmethod
+    def process_item(item, spider):
         """
         Processing the items so None values are replaced by empty strings
         :param item: The incoming item
@@ -21,8 +22,8 @@ class RemoveNonePipeline(object):
                 item[key] = ""
         return item
 
-class DuplicatePipeline(object):
 
+class DuplicatePipeline(object):
     def __init__(self):
         self.known_values = set()
 
@@ -35,17 +36,18 @@ class DuplicatePipeline(object):
         """
         value = (item['attribute'], item['value'], item['conditions'])
         if value in self.known_values:
-            raise DropItem("Duplicate item found: %s" % item) # #[todo] append sources of first item.
+            raise DropItem("Duplicate item found: %s" % item)  # [todo] append sources of first item.
         else:
             self.known_values.add(value)
             return item
 
+
 class AttributeSelectionPipeline(object):
-
     def __init__(self):
-        pass;
+        pass
 
-    def process_item(self, item, spider):
+    @staticmethod
+    def process_item(item, spider):
         """
         The items are processed using the selected attribute list available in the spider,
         items that don't match the selected items are dropped.
diff --git a/FourmiCrawler/settings.py b/FourmiCrawler/settings.py
index be7c451..8c1df07 100644
--- a/FourmiCrawler/settings.py
+++ b/FourmiCrawler/settings.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # For simplicity, this file contains only the most important settings by
 # default. All the other settings are documented here:
 #
-#     http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html
+# http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/settings.html
 #
 
 BOT_NAME = 'FourmiCrawler'
diff --git a/FourmiCrawler/sources/ChemSpider.py b/FourmiCrawler/sources/ChemSpider.py
index 2fcd07c..8c0bd8b 100644
--- a/FourmiCrawler/sources/ChemSpider.py
+++ b/FourmiCrawler/sources/ChemSpider.py
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
-from source import Source
+import re
+
 from scrapy import log
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.selector import Selector
+
+from source import Source
 from FourmiCrawler.items import Result
-import re
+
 
 # [TODO] - Maybe clean up usage of '.extract()[0]', because of possible IndexError exception.
 
@@ -58,9 +61,7 @@ class ChemSpider(Source):
             prop_conditions = ''
 
             # Test for properties without values, with one hardcoded exception
-            if (not re.match(r'^\d', prop_value) or
-                    (prop_name == 'Polarizability' and
-                    prop_value == '10-24cm3')):
+            if not re.match(r'^\d', prop_value) or (prop_name == 'Polarizability' and prop_value == '10-24cm3'):
                 continue
 
             # Match for condition in parentheses
diff --git a/FourmiCrawler/sources/NIST.py b/FourmiCrawler/sources/NIST.py
index 0b75b17..6e8fabb 100644
--- a/FourmiCrawler/sources/NIST.py
+++ b/FourmiCrawler/sources/NIST.py
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
-from source import Source
+import re
+
 from scrapy import log
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy.selector import Selector
+
+from source import Source
 from FourmiCrawler.items import Result
-import re
+
 
 # [TODO]: values can be '128.', perhaps remove the dot in that case?
 # [TODO]: properties have references and comments which do not exist in the
-#         Result item, but should be included eventually.
+# Result item, but should be included eventually.
 
 class NIST(Source):
     """NIST Scraper plugin
@@ -15,7 +18,7 @@ class NIST(Source):
     This plugin manages searching for a chemical on the NIST website
     and parsing the resulting page if the chemical exists on NIST.
     """
-    website = "http://webbook.nist.gov/*"  
+    website = "http://webbook.nist.gov/*"
 
     search = 'cgi/cbook.cgi?Name=%s&Units=SI&cTP=on'
 
@@ -75,7 +78,7 @@ class NIST(Source):
                 requests.extend(self.parse_generic_data(table, summary))
             else:
                 log.msg('NIST table: NOT SUPPORTED', level=log.WARNING)
-                continue #Assume unsupported
+                continue  # Assume unsupported
         return requests
 
     def parse_generic_info(self, sel):
@@ -103,7 +106,7 @@ class NIST(Source):
         data['IUPAC Standard InChI'] = raw_inchi.extract()[0]
 
         raw_inchikey = ul.xpath('li[strong="IUPAC Standard InChIKey:"]'
-                            '/tt/text()')
+                                '/tt/text()')
         data['IUPAC Standard InChIKey'] = raw_inchikey.extract()[0]
 
         raw_cas_number = ul.xpath('li[strong="CAS Registry Number:"]/text()')
@@ -129,10 +132,10 @@ class NIST(Source):
         results = []
         for tr in table.xpath('tr[td]'):
             extra_data_url = tr.xpath('td[last()][a="Individual data points"]'
-                                '/a/@href').extract()
+                                      '/a/@href').extract()
             if extra_data_url:
                 request = Request(url=self.website[:-1] + extra_data_url[0],
-                    callback=self.parse_individual_datapoints)
+                                  callback=self.parse_individual_datapoints)
                 results.append(request)
                 continue
             data = []
@@ -180,7 +183,6 @@ class NIST(Source):
             })
             results.append(result)
 
-
         return results
 
     @staticmethod
@@ -228,7 +230,8 @@ class NIST(Source):
 
         return results
 
-    def parse_individual_datapoints(self, response):
+    @staticmethod
+    def parse_individual_datapoints(response):
         """Parses the page linked from aggregate data"""
         sel = Selector(response)
         table = sel.xpath('//table[@class="data"]')[0]
diff --git a/FourmiCrawler/sources/WikipediaParser.py b/FourmiCrawler/sources/WikipediaParser.py
index cb7d0b9..868b49f 100644
--- a/FourmiCrawler/sources/WikipediaParser.py
+++ b/FourmiCrawler/sources/WikipediaParser.py
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+import re
+
 from scrapy.http import Request
 from scrapy import log
-from source import Source
 from scrapy.selector import Selector
+
+from source import Source
 from FourmiCrawler.items import Result
-import re
 
 
 class WikipediaParser(Source):
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ class WikipediaParser(Source):
         """ scrape data from infobox on wikipedia. """
         items = []
 
-        #be sure to get chembox (wikipedia template)
+        # be sure to get chembox (wikipedia template)
         tr_list = sel.xpath('.//table[@class="infobox bordered"]//td[not(@colspan)]'). \
             xpath('normalize-space(string())')
         prop_names = tr_list[::2]
diff --git a/FourmiCrawler/spider.py b/FourmiCrawler/spider.py
index 08abb6b..d1b99a7 100644
--- a/FourmiCrawler/spider.py
+++ b/FourmiCrawler/spider.py
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ class FourmiSpider(Spider):
     A spider writen for the Fourmi Project which calls upon all available sources to request and scrape data.
     """
     name = "FourmiSpider"
-    __sources = []
-    synonyms = []
+    _sources = []
+    synonyms = set()
 
     def __init__(self, compound=None, selected_attributes=[".*"], *args, **kwargs):
         """
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ class FourmiSpider(Spider):
         :param selected_attributes: A list of regular expressions that the attributes should match.
         """
         super(FourmiSpider, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        self.synonyms.append(compound)
-        self.selected_attributes = selected_attributes;
+        self.synonyms.add(compound)
+        self.selected_attributes = selected_attributes
 
     def parse(self, response):
         """
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class FourmiSpider(Spider):
         :param response: A Scrapy Response object that should be parsed
         :return: A list of Result items and new Request to be handled by the scrapy core.
         """
-        for source in self.__sources:
+        for source in self._sources:
             if re.match(source.website, response.url):
                 log.msg("Url: " + response.url + " -> Source: " + source.website, level=log.DEBUG)
                 return source.parse(response)
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ class FourmiSpider(Spider):
         :return: A list of Scrapy Request objects
         """
         requests = []
-        for parser in self.__sources:
-            parser_requests = parser.new_compound_request(compound)
-            if parser_requests is not None:
-                requests.append(parser_requests)
+        if compound not in self.synonyms:
+            self.synonyms.add(compound)
+            for parser in self._sources:
+                parser_requests = parser.new_compound_request(compound)
+                if parser_requests is not None:
+                    requests.append(parser_requests)
         return requests
 
     def start_requests(self):
@@ -71,5 +73,5 @@ class FourmiSpider(Spider):
         A function add a new Parser object to the list of available parsers.
         :param source: A Source Object
         """
-        self.__sources.append(source)
+        self._sources.append(source)
         source.set_spider(self)
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e9150a6..2b286a0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Fourmi
 
+**Master branch**: [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Recondor/Fourmi.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Recondor/Fourmi)
+
+**Developing branch**: [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Recondor/Fourmi.svg?branch=develop)](https://travis-ci.org/Recondor/Fourmi)
+
 Fourmi is an web scraper for chemical substances. The program is designed to be
 used as a search engine to search multiple chemical databases for a specific
 substance. The program will produce all available attributes of the substance
diff --git a/fourmi.py b/fourmi.py
index b4c2b48..683e257 100755
--- a/fourmi.py
+++ b/fourmi.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+# !/usr/bin/env python
 """
 Fourmi, a web scraper build to search specific information for a given compound (and it's pseudonyms).
 
diff --git a/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b13789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+
diff --git a/tests/test_pipeline.py b/tests/test_pipeline.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dfb8e83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_pipeline.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import copy
+import unittest
+
+from scrapy.exceptions import DropItem
+
+from FourmiCrawler import pipelines, spider, items
+
+
+class TestPipelines(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.testItem = items.Result()
+
+    def test_none_pipeline(self):
+        # Testing the pipeline that replaces the None values in items.
+        self.testItem["value"] = "abc"
+        pipe = pipelines.RemoveNonePipeline()
+        processed = pipe.process_item(self.testItem, spider.FourmiSpider())
+
+        self.assertTrue(processed["value"] == "abc")
+
+        for key in self.testItem:
+            self.assertIsNotNone(processed[key])
+            if key is not "value":
+                self.assertIs(processed[key], "")
+
+    def test_duplicate_pipeline(self):
+        # Testing the pipeline that removes duplicates.
+        self.testItem["attribute"] = "test"
+        self.testItem["value"] = "test"
+        self.testItem["conditions"] = "test"
+
+        pipe = pipelines.DuplicatePipeline()
+        self.assertEqual(pipe.process_item(self.testItem, spider.FourmiSpider()), self.testItem)
+        self.assertRaises(DropItem, pipe.process_item, self.testItem, spider.FourmiSpider())
+
+        other_item = copy.deepcopy(self.testItem)
+        other_item["value"] = "test1"
+        self.assertEqual(pipe.process_item(other_item, spider.FourmiSpider()), other_item)
+
+    def test_attribute_selection(self):
+        # Testing the pipeline that selects attributes.
+        item1 = copy.deepcopy(self.testItem)
+        item2 = copy.deepcopy(self.testItem)
+
+        item1["attribute"] = "abd"
+        item2["attribute"] = "abc"
+
+        s = spider.FourmiSpider(selected_attributes=["a.d"])
+        pipe = pipelines.AttributeSelectionPipeline()
+
+        self.assertEqual(pipe.process_item(item1, s), item1)
+        self.assertRaises(DropItem, pipe.process_item, item2, s)
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diff --git a/tests/test_sourceloader.py b/tests/test_sourceloader.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1afca2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_sourceloader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import unittest
+
+from sourceloader import SourceLoader
+
+
+class TestSourceloader(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.loader = SourceLoader()
+
+    def test_init(self):
+        # Test if sourceloader points to the right directory, where the sources are present.
+        self.assertIn("Source: Source", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertIn("Source: NIST", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertIn("Source: ChemSpider", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertIn("Source: WikipediaParser", str(self.loader))
+
+    def test_include(self):
+        # Tests for the include functionality.
+        self.loader.include(["So.rc.*"])
+
+        self.assertIn("Source: Source", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertNotIn("Source: NIST", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertNotIn("Source: ChemSpider", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertNotIn("Source: WikipediaParser", str(self.loader))
+
+    def test_exclude(self):
+        # Tests for the exclude functionality.
+        self.loader.exclude(["So.rc.*"])
+
+        self.assertNotIn("Source: Source", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertIn("Source: NIST", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertIn("Source: ChemSpider", str(self.loader))
+        self.assertIn("Source: WikipediaParser", str(self.loader))
diff --git a/tests/test_spider.py b/tests/test_spider.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66878eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_spider.py
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import unittest
+
+from scrapy.http import Request
+
+from FourmiCrawler import spider
+from FourmiCrawler.sources.ChemSpider import ChemSpider
+from FourmiCrawler.sources.source import Source
+
+
+class TestFoumiSpider(unittest.TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.compound = "test_compound"
+        self.attributes = ["a.*", ".*a"]
+        self.spi = spider.FourmiSpider(self.compound, self.attributes)
+
+    def test_init(self):
+        # Test the initiation of the Fourmi spider
+        self.assertIn(self.compound, self.spi.synonyms)
+        for attr in self.attributes:
+            self.assertIn(attr, self.spi.selected_attributes)
+
+    def test_add_source(self):
+        # Testing the source adding function of the Fourmi spider
+        src = Source()
+        self.spi.add_source(src)
+        self.assertIn(src, self.spi._sources)
+
+    def test_add_sources(self):
+        # Testing the function that adds multiple sources
+        srcs = [Source(), Source(), Source()]
+        self.spi.add_sources(srcs)
+
+        for src in srcs:
+            self.assertIn(src, self.spi._sources)
+
+    def test_start_requests(self):
+        # A test for the function that generates the start requests
+        self.spi._sources = []
+
+        src = Source()
+        self.spi.add_source(src)
+        self.assertEqual(self.spi.start_requests(), [])
+
+        src2 = ChemSpider()
+        self.spi.add_source(src2)
+        self.assertIsNotNone(self.spi.start_requests())
+
+    def test_synonym_requests(self):
+        # A test for the synonym request function
+        self.spi._sources = []
+
+        src = Source()
+        self.spi.add_source(src)
+        self.assertEqual(self.spi.get_synonym_requests("new_compound"), [])
+        self.assertIn("new_compound", self.spi.synonyms)
+
+        src2 = ChemSpider()
+        self.spi.add_source(src2)
+        self.assertIsInstance(self.spi.get_synonym_requests("other_compound")[0], Request)
+        self.assertIn("other_compound", self.spi.synonyms)
+        self.assertEqual(self.spi.get_synonym_requests("other_compound"), [])
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