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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ There are several add-on services available to extend the functionality of Bitco
 - [Services](docs/services.md)
   - [Bitcoind](docs/services/bitcoind.md) - Interface to Bitcoin Core
   - [Web](docs/services/web.md) - Creates an express application over which services can expose their web/API content
-- [Testing & Development](docs/testing.md) - Developer guide for testing
+- [Development Environment](docs/development.md) - Guide for setting up a development environment
 - [Node](docs/node.md) - Details on the node constructor
 - [Bus](docs/bus.md) - Overview of the event bus constructor
 - [Release Process](docs/release.md) - Information about verifying a release and the release process.
diff --git a/docs/development.md b/docs/development.md
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+# Setting up Development Environment
+
+## Install Node.js
+
+Install Node.js by your favorite method, or use Node Version Manager by following directions at https://github.com/creationix/nvm
+
+```bash
+nvm install v4
+```
+
+## Fork and Download Repositories
+
+To develop bitcore-node:
+
+```bash
+cd ~
+git clone git@github.com:<yourusername>/bitcore-node.git
+git clone git@github.com:<yourusername>/bitcore-lib.git
+```
+
+To develop bitcoin or to compile from source:
+
+```bash
+git clone git@github.com:<yourusername>/bitcoin.git
+git fetch origin <branchname>:<branchname>
+git checkout <branchname>
+```
+**Note**: See bitcoin documentation for building bitcoin on your platform.
+
+
+## Install ZeroMQ Development Dependency
+
+For Ubuntu:
+```bash
+sudo apt-get install libzmq-dev
+```
+
+For Mac OS X:
+```bash
+brew install zeromq
+```
+
+## Install and Symlink
+
+```bash
+cd bitcore-lib
+npm install
+cd ../bitcore-node
+npm install
+```
+**Note**: If you get a message about not being able to download bitcoin distribution, you'll need to compile bitcoind from source, and setup your configuration to use that version.
+
+
+We now will setup symlinks in `bitcore-node` *(repeat this for any other modules you're planning on developing)*:
+```bash
+cd node_modules
+rm -rf bitcore-lib
+ln -s ~/bitcore-lib
+rm -rf bitcoind-rpc
+ln -s ~/bitcoind-rpc
+```
+
+And if you're compiling or developing bitcoin:
+```bash
+cd ../bin
+ln -sf ~/bitcoin/src/bitcoind
+```
+
+## Run Tests
+
+If you do not already have mocha installed:
+```bash
+npm install mocha -g
+```
+
+To run all test suites:
+```bash
+cd bitcore-node
+npm run regtest
+npm run test
+```
+
+To run a specific unit test in watch mode:
+```bash
+mocha -w -R spec test/services/bitcoind.unit.js
+```
+
+To run a specific regtest:
+```bash
+mocha -R spec regtest/bitcoind.js
+```
+
+## Running a Development Node
+
+To test running the node, you can setup a configuration that will specify development versions of all of the services:
+
+```bash
+cd ~
+mkdir devnode
+cd devnode
+mkdir node_modules
+touch bitcore-node.json
+touch package.json
+```
+
+Edit `bitcore-node.json` with something similar to:
+```json
+{
+  "network": "livenet",
+  "port": 3001,
+  "services": [
+    "bitcoind",
+    "web",
+    "insight-api",
+    "insight-ui"
+  ],
+  "servicesConfig": {
+    "bitcoind": {
+      "spawn": {
+        "datadir": "/home/<youruser>/.bitcoin",
+        "exec": "/home/<youruser>/bitcoin/src/bitcoind"
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Setup symlinks for all of the services and dependencies:
+
+```bash
+cd node_modules
+ln -s ~/bitcore-lib
+ln -s ~/bitcore-node
+ln -s ~/insight-api
+ln -s ~/insight-ui
+```
+
+Make sure that the `<datadir>/bitcoin.conf` has the necessary settings, for example:
+```
+server=1
+whitelist=127.0.0.1
+txindex=1
+addressindex=1
+timestampindex=1
+spentindex=1
+zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332
+zmqpubhashblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332
+rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
+rpcuser=bitcoin
+rpcpassword=local321
+```
+
+From within the `devnode` directory with the configuration file, start the node:
+```bash
+../bitcore-node/bin/bitcore-node start
+```
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-# Development & Testing
-To run all of the JavaScript tests:
-
-```bash
-npm run test
-```
-
-If you do not already have mocha installed:
-
-```bash
-npm install mocha -g
-```
-
-To run the regression tests:
-
-```bash
-mocha -R spec regtest/bitcoind.js
-```
-
-To be able to debug bitcoind you'll need to have `gdb` and `node` compiled for debugging with gdb using `--gdb` (sometimes called node_g), and you can then run:
-
-```bash
-$ gdb --args node examples/node.js
-```
-
-To run mocha from within gdb (notice `_mocha` and not `mocha` so that the tests run in the same process):
-
-```bash
-$ gdb --args node /path/to/_mocha -R spec integration/regtest.js
-```
-
-To run the benchmarks:
-
-```bash
-$ cd benchmarks
-$ node index.js
-```