diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 342ba60..bd02b22 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ function startGulp(name, opts) {
   };
 
   var testkarma = shell.task([
-    './node_modules/karma/bin/karma start'
+    './node_modules/bitcore-build/node_modules/karma/bin/karma start ./node_modules/bitcore-build/karma.conf.js'
   ]);
 
   gulp.task('test:node', testmocha);
diff --git a/karma.conf.js b/karma.conf.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..41da910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/karma.conf.js
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+'use strict';
+
+// karma.conf.js
+module.exports = function(config) {
+
+  config.set({
+    browsers: ['Firefox'],
+    frameworks: ['mocha', 'detectBrowsers'],
+    detectBrowsers: {
+      enabled: true,
+      usePhantomJS: false,
+      postDetection: function(availableBrowser) {
+        // modify to enable additional browsers if available
+        var runBrowsers = ['Firefox', 'Chrome'];
+        var browsers = [];
+        for(var i = 0; i < runBrowsers.length; i++) {
+          if(~availableBrowser.indexOf(runBrowsers[i])) {
+            browsers.push(runBrowsers[i]);
+          }
+        }
+        return browsers;
+      }
+    },
+    singleRun: true,
+    files: [
+      './../../tests.js' // project root
+    ],
+    plugins: [
+      'karma-mocha',
+      'karma-chrome-launcher',
+      'karma-firefox-launcher',
+      'karma-detect-browsers'
+    ]
+  });
+
+};
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ef23b53..1c575b2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@
     "gulp-shell": "^0.2.10",
     "gulp-uglify": "^1.0.2",
     "gulp-util": "=3.0.1",
+    "mocha": "^2.0.1",
+    "karma": "^0.12.28",
+    "karma-firefox-launcher": "^0.1.3",
+    "karma-chrome-launcher": "^0.1.7",
+    "karma-detect-browsers": "^0.1.3",
+    "karma-mocha": "^0.1.9",
     "lodash": "^2.4.1",
     "plato": "^1.3.0",
     "run-sequence": "^1.0.2"