diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a2bec895addcc28fa81f0af8cb44e07add79136d..a4450cde512ec623e992a77793d6e4f54880dcc0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,3 +4,89 @@ This is Data Catalog for eFlows4HPC project
 
 Find architecture in [arch](arch/arch.adoc) folder. 
 
+
+## API-Server for the Data Catalog
+
+This is the API-server for the Data Catalog, which will provide the backend functionality.
+
+It is implemented via [fastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) and provides an api documentation via openAPI.
+
+For deployment via [docker](https://www.docker.com/), a docker image is included. 
+
+### API Documentation
+
+If the api-server is running, you can see the documentation at `<server-url>/docs` or `<server-url>/redoc`.
+
+
+### Running without docker
+First ensure that your python version is 3.6 or newer.
+
+Then, if they are not yet installed on your machine, install the following two packages via pip:
+
+```bash
+pip install fastapi
+pip install uvicorn[standard]
+```
+
+To start the server, run
+```bash
+uvicorn apiserver:app --reload --reload-dir apiserver
+```
+while in the project root directory.
+
+Without any other options, this starts your server on `<localhost:8000>`.
+The `--reload --reload-dir apiserver` options ensure, that any changes to files in the `apiserver`-directory will cause an immediate reload of the server, which is especially useful during development. If this is not required, just don't include the options.
+
+More information about uvicorn settings (including information about how to bind to other network interfaces or ports) can be found [here](https://www.uvicorn.org/settings/).
+
+### Testing
+
+First ensure that the `pytest` package is installed.
+
+Tests are located in the `apiserver_tests` directory. They can be executed by simply running `pytest` while in the project folder.
+
+If more test-files should be added, they should be named with a `test_` prefix and put into a similarily named folder, so that they can be auto-detected.
+
+The `context.py` file helps with importing the apiserver-packages, so that the tests function independent of the local python path setup.
+
+
+
+
+### Using the docker image
+
+#### Building the docker image
+
+To build the docker image of the current version, simply run
+
+```bash
+docker built -t datacatalog-apiserver ./apiserver
+```
+while in the project root directory.
+
+`datacatalog-apiserver` is a local tag to identify the built docker image.
+
+#### Running the docker image
+
+To run the docker image in a local container, run 
+```bash
+docker run -d --name <container name> -p 127.0.0.1:<local_port>:80 datacalog-apiserver
+```
+
+`<container name>` is the name of your container, that can be used to refer to it with other docker commands.
+
+`<local_port>` is the port of your local machine, which will be forwarded to the docker container. For example, if it is set to `8080`, you will be able to reach the api-server at http://localhost:8080.
+
+#### Stopping the docker image
+
+To stop the docker image, run
+```bash
+docker stop <container name>
+```
+
+Note, that this will only stop the container, and not delete it fully. To do that, run
+
+```bash
+docker rm <container name>
+```
+
+For more information about docker, please see the [docker docs](https://docs.docker.com)
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diff --git a/apiserver/Dockerfile b/apiserver/Dockerfile
index 491f752e2cd3db128941869239eb3764f4813067..80fba08926a89fdd448746c30d633e005c7d75be 100644
--- a/apiserver/Dockerfile
+++ b/apiserver/Dockerfile
@@ -13,6 +13,4 @@ COPY ./__init__.py /app/app/
 COPY ./main.py /app/app/
 COPY ./storage/JsonFileStorageAdapter.py /app/app/storage/
 COPY ./storage/LocationStorage.py /app/app/storage/
-COPY ./storage/__init__.py /app/app/storage/
-
-RUN ls -laR /app
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+COPY ./storage/__init__.py /app/app/storage/
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diff --git a/apiserver/README.md b/apiserver/README.md
index 1c18affff71ffb4f1939fe7575101a8c83b03be7..e720fc59e1af34c10a24fe99021c8336db60c19f 100644
--- a/apiserver/README.md
+++ b/apiserver/README.md
@@ -1,72 +1,7 @@
-# API-Server for the Data Catalog
+# TODO list
 
-This is the API-server for the Data Catalog, which will provide the backend functionality.
-
-It is implemented via [fastAPI](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/) and provides an api documentation via openAPI.
-
-For deployment via [docker](https://www.docker.com/), a docker image is included. 
-
-## API Documentation
-
-If the api-server is running, you can see the documentation at `<server-url>/docs` or `<server-url>/redoc`.
-
-
-## Running without docker
-First ensure that your python version is 3.6 or newer.
-
-Then, if they are not yet installed on your machine, install the following two packages via pip:
-
-```bash
-pip install fastapi
-pip install uvicorn[standard]
-```
-
-To start the server, run
-```bash
-uvicorn apiserver:app --reload --reload-dir apiserver
-```
-
-Without any other options, this starts your server on `<localhost:8000>`.
-The `--reload --reload-dir apiserver` options ensure, that any changes to files in the `apiserver`-directory will cause an immediate reload of the server, which is especially useful during development. If this is not required, just don't include the options.
-
-More information about uvicorn settings (including information about how to bind to other network interfaces or ports) can be found [here](https://www.uvicorn.org/settings/).
-
-
-## Using the docker image
-
-### Building the docker image
-
-To build the docker image of the current version, simply run
-
-```bash
-docker built -t datacatalog-apiserver .
-```
-while in the same directory as the Dockerfile.
-
-`datacatalog-apiserver` is a local tag to identify the built docker image.
-
-### Running the docker image
-
-To run the docker image in a local container, run 
-```bash
-docker run -d --name <container name> -p 127.0.0.1:<local_port>:80 datacalog-apiserver
-```
-
-`<container name>` is the name of your container, that can be used to refer to it with other docker commands.
-
-`<local_port>` is the port of your local machine, which will be forwarded to the docker container. For example, if it is set to `8080`, you will be able to reach the api-server at http://localhost:8080.
-
-### Stopping the docker image
-
-To stop the docker image, run
-```bash
-docker stop <container name>
-```
-
-Note, that this will only stop the container, and not delete it fully. To do that, run
-
-```bash
-docker rm <container name>
-```
-
-For more information about docker, please see the [docker docs](https://docs.docker.com)
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+- add testing stuff to readme
+- merge and add CI Testing
+- expand tests
+- add authentication stuff
+    - find out how authentication is to be handled
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diff --git a/apiserver/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
similarity index 100%
rename from apiserver/requirements.txt
rename to requirements.txt