diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eaa127a1..d1a876fd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,27 +1,28 @@
 _trial_temp
 build
 build-pypy
 MANIFEST
 dist
 apidocs
 *,cover
 .testrepository
 *.pyc
 *.pyd
 *.pyo
 *.so
 *~
 *.swp
 *.swh
 *.swn
 *.swo
 docs/tutorial/index.html
 dulwich.egg-info/
 .tox/
 .idea/
 .coverage
 htmlcov/
 docs/api/*.txt
 .mypy_cache/
 .eggs
 dulwich.dist-info
+.stestr
diff --git a/.stestr.conf b/.stestr.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..64964357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.stestr.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[DEFAULT]
+test_path=dulwich/tests