diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
index dd6b128f..717ff9af 100644
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -4,4 +4,9 @@
     "cSpell.enableFiletypes": [
         "!python"
     ],
+    "python.testing.pytestArgs": [
+        "app"
+    ],
+    "python.testing.unittestEnabled": true,
+    "python.testing.pytestEnabled": true,
 }
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diff --git a/app/api/tests/test_api_inventory.py b/app/api/tests/test_api_inventory.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..95f5c3a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/api/tests/test_api_inventory.py
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+from django.shortcuts import reverse
+from django.test import TestCase, Client
+
+import pytest
+import unittest
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_device_added():
+    """ Device is created """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_operating_system_added():
+    """ Operating System is created """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_operating_system_version_added():
+    """ Operating System version is created """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_device_has_operating_system_added():
+    """ Operating System version linked to device """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_device_operating_system_version_is_semver():
+    """ Operating System version is full semver
+    
+        Operating system versions name is the major version number of semver.
+        The device version is to be full semver 
+     """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_no_version_cleaned():
+    """ Check softare cleaned up
+    
+    As part of the inventory upload the software versions of software found on the device is set to null
+    and before the processing is completed, the version=null software is supposed to be cleaned up.
+    """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_category_added():
+    """ Software category exists """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_added():
+    """ Test software exists """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_category_linked_to_software():
+    """ Software category linked to software """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_version_added():
+    """ Test software version exists """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_version_returns_semver():
+    """ Software Version from inventory returns semver if within version string """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_version_returns_original_version():
+    """ Software Version from inventory returns inventoried version if no semver found """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_software_version_linked_to_software():
+    """ Test software version linked to software it belongs too """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_device_has_software_version():
+    """ Inventoried software is linked to device and it's the corret one"""
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_device_software_has_installed_date():
+    """ Inventoried software version has install date """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_device_software_blank_installed_date_is_updated():
+    """ A blank installed date of software is updated if the software was already attached to the device """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_valid_status_created():
+    """ Successful inventory upload returns 201 """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_invalid_status_bad_request():
+    """ Incorrectly formated inventory upload returns 400 """
+    pass
+
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="to be written")
+def test_api_inventory_exeception_status_sever_error():
+    """ if the method throws an exception 500 must be returned.
+    
+    idea to test: add a random key to the report that is not documented
+    and perform some action against it that will cause a python exception.
+     """
+    pass
+