diff --git a/extras/smoke-test.sh b/extras/smoke-test.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+set -uxo pipefail
+
+# we will need to download test models off HF hub
+unset HF_HUB_OFFLINE
+
+export HTTP_PORT=8080
+export GRPC_PORT=8033
+
+
+function wait_for(){
+    trap "" ERR # we don't care about errors in this function
+
+    name=$1
+    shift
+    command=$@
+
+    max_retries=10
+    until $command ; do
+        echo "Waiting for $name to be up (retries_left=$max_retries)..."
+        sleep 30
+        max_retries=$((max_retries-1))
+        if [[ max_retries -le 0 ]]; then
+            echo "Timed out waiting for $name server" >&2
+            exit 1
+        fi
+    done
+}
+
+# stop the server on any errors
+trap 'kill -9 $server_pid && exit 1' ERR
+
+# spin up the OpenAPI server in the background
+python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --port $HTTP_PORT &
+server_pid=$!
+server_url="http://localhost:$HTTP_PORT"
+
+wait_for "http server" curl --verbose --connect-timeout 1 --fail-with-body --no-progress-meter "${server_url}/health"
+
+curl -v --no-progress-meter --fail-with-body \
+  "${server_url}/v1/models" | python -m json.tool || \
+
+curl -v --no-progress-meter --fail-with-body \
+  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  --data '{
+    "prompt": "A red fedora symbolizes ",
+    "model": "facebook/opt-125m"
+}' \
+  "${server_url}/v1/completions" | python -m json.tool
+
+echo "OpenAI API success" && kill -9 $server_pid
+
+
+# spin up the grpc server in the background
+python -m vllm_tgis_adapter --grpc-port $GRPC_PORT &
+server_pid=$!
+server_url="localhost:$GRPC_PORT"
+
+# get grpcurl
+curl --no-progress-meter --location --output /tmp/grpcurl.tar.gz \
+  https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl/releases/download/v1.9.1/grpcurl_1.9.1_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
+tar -xf /tmp/grpcurl.tar.gz --directory /tmp
+
+wait_for "grpc_server" grpc_healthcheck # healthcheck is part of vllm_tgis_adapter
+
+/tmp/grpcurl -v \
+    -plaintext \
+    -use-reflection \
+    -d '{ "requests": [{"text": "A red fedora symbolizes "}]}' \
+    "$server_url" \
+    fmaas.GenerationService/Generate
+
+echo "GRPC API success" && kill -9 $server_pid
diff --git a/extras/unit-tests.sh b/extras/unit-tests.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# partially copied from from .buildkite/test-pipeline.yml
+
+cd tests || exit 1
+
+# we will need to download test models off HF hub
+unset HF_HUB_OFFLINE
+
+# basic correctness
+pytest -v -s test_regression.py
+pytest -v -s async_engine
+VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND=XFORMERS pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py
+VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_basic_correctness.py
+VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND=XFORMERS pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_chunked_prefill.py
+VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_chunked_prefill.py
+VLLM_TEST_ENABLE_ARTIFICIAL_PREEMPT=1 pytest -v -s basic_correctness/test_preemption.py
+
+# core
+pytest -v -s core
+
+# note: distributed tests are disabled
+
+# engine tests
+pytest -v -s engine tokenization test_sequence.py test_config.py test_logger.py
+# entrypoint
+pytest -v -s entrypoints -m openai
+
+#inputs (note: multimodal tests are skipped)
+pytest -v -s test_inputs.py
+
+#models
+pytest -v -s models -m \"not vlm\"
+
+# misc
+pytest -v -s prefix_caching
+pytest -v -s samplers
+pytest -v -s test_logits_processor.py
+pytest -v -s models -m \"not vlm\"
+pytest -v -s worker
+VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND=XFORMERS pytest -v -s spec_decode
+# pytest -v -s tensorizer_loader # disabled: requires libsodium
+pytest -v -s metrics
+pytest -v -s quantization