diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 56399db..2db2323 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 beautifulsoup4>=4.9
 requests>=2.20
+pytest>=8.4.1
diff --git a/tests/test_googlesearch.py b/tests/test_googlesearch.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48fceea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_googlesearch.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Introduced unit tests with pytest to make the development process a bit easier
+import webbrowser
+from googlesearch import *
+import pytest
+
+#sample test query
+ser = "test query"
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def search_query():
+	return "test query"
+
+# opening the web browser to test the library since using simple `search("google")` does not work
+def test_searchactual(search_query):
+	search(search_query)
+	webbrowser.open_new_tab(next(search(search_query)))
+	return True
+	
+#using pytest to check if the test passes
+def test_search():
+	assert search(ser) is not None
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