diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ba57bce..d82d500 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,3 +3,11 @@ target/
 
 # NetBeans user-specific build actions
 nbactions.xml
+
+# Testenvironment
+.tox/
+
+# Editors
+*~
+.*.swp
+.bak
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f18af0c..dbd86f4 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -42,6 +42,25 @@ The root of the generated HTML documentation is::
 
     v2.0/target/docbkx/webhelp/openstack-network/index.html
 
+Testing of changes and building of the manual
+=============================================
+
+Install the python tox package and run ``tox`` from the top-level
+directory to use the same tests that are done as part of our Jenkins
+gating jobs.
+
+If you like to run individual tests, run:
+* ``tox -e checkniceness`` - to run the niceness tests
+* ``tox -e checksyntax`` - to run syntax checks
+* ``tox -e checkdeletions`` - to check that no deleted files are referenced
+* ``tox -e checkbuild`` - to actually build the manual
+
+tox will use the `openstack-doc-tools package
+<https://github.com/openstack/openstack-doc-tools>`_ for execution of
+these tests. openstack-doc-tools has a requirement on maven for the
+build check.
+
+
 Installing
 ==========
 Refer to http://docs.openstack.org to see where these documents are published
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5090e85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+openstack-doc-tools
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f61e353
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[tox]
+minversion = 1.6
+envlist = checkniceness,checksyntax,checkdeletions,checkbuild
+skipsdist = True
+
+[testenv]
+setenv =
+   VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
+   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
+   LC_ALL=C
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/test-requirements.txt
+
+[testenv:venv]
+commands = {posargs}
+
+[testenv:checkniceness]
+commands = openstack-doc-test  --api-site --check-niceness {posargs}
+
+[testenv:checksyntax]
+commands = openstack-doc-test  --api-site --check-syntax {posargs}
+
+[testenv:checkdeletions]
+commands = openstack-doc-test  --api-site --check-deletions {posargs}
+
+[testenv:checkbuild]
+# ignore directory v1.0, it is not published
+commands = openstack-doc-test  --api-site --ignore-dir=v1.0 --check-build {posargs}