Adding unit tests to git actions

Author: filanov

.github/workflows/unittest.yaml

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+name: unit-test 
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["3.9"] # there is an issue with python 3.10 and `collections`
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v3
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install flake8
+        pip install -r requirements.txt
+        pip install nose avocado avocado-framework 
+    - name: run nosetest
+      run: |
+        nosetests -v tests/unittests/