caught up with latest gitlab commits, added a new tests directory leveraging pytest based tests for testing core functionality

daemon/setup.py

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ setup(name="core-python",
       install_requires=[
         "enum34"
       ],
+      setup_requires=["pytest-runner"],
+      tests_require=["pytest"],
       description="Python components of CORE",
       url="http://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/ncs/products/core",
       author="Boeing Research & Technology",