diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index f8df1a36304c5..cb45e9c2b4332 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ version: "3.7"
 services:
   redis:
     image: redis:3.2
+    container_name: superset_cache
     restart: unless-stopped
     ports:
       - "127.0.0.1:6379:6379"
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ services:
   db:
     env_file: docker/.env
     image: postgres:10
+    container_name: superset_db
     restart: unless-stopped
     ports:
       - "127.0.0.1:5432:5432"
@@ -52,9 +54,10 @@ services:
       - db_home:/var/lib/postgresql/data
 
   superset:
+    env_file: docker/.env
     build: *superset-build
+    container_name: superset_app
     command: ["flask", "run", "-p", "8088", "--with-threads", "--reload", "--debugger", "--host=0.0.0.0"]
-    env_file: docker/.env
     restart: unless-stopped
     ports:
       - 8088:8088
@@ -63,6 +66,7 @@ services:
 
   superset-init:
     build: *superset-build
+    container_name: superset_init
     command: ["/app/docker-init.sh"]
     env_file: docker/.env
     depends_on: *superset-depends-on
@@ -70,6 +74,7 @@ services:
 
   superset-node:
     image: node:10-jessie
+    container_name: superset_node
     command: ["bash", "-c", "cd /app/superset-frontend && npm install --global webpack webpack-cli && npm install && npm run dev"]
     env_file: docker/.env
     depends_on: *superset-depends-on
@@ -77,6 +82,7 @@ services:
 
   superset-worker:
     build: *superset-build
+    container_name: superset_worker
     command: ["celery", "worker", "--app=superset.tasks.celery_app:app", "-Ofair"]
     env_file: docker/.env
     restart: unless-stopped
diff --git a/scripts/tests/README.md b/scripts/tests/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..814e54235fadb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tests/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+# Utility script to run tests faster
+
+By default tests will be run using the Postgres container defined at the `docker-compose` file on the root of the repo,
+so prior to using this script make sure to launch the dev containers.
+
+You can use a different DB backend by defining `SUPERSET__SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI` env var.
+
+## Use:
+
+From the superset repo root directory:
+
+- Example run a single test module:
+```$bash
+scripts/tests/run.sh tests.charts.api_tests
+```
+
+- Example run a single test:
+```$bash
+scripts/tests/run.sh tests.charts.api_tests:ChartApiTests.test_get_charts
+```
+
+- Example run a single test, without any init procedures. Init procedures include:
+  resetting test database, db upgrade, superset init, loading example data. If your tests
+  are idempotent, after the first run, subsequent runs are really fast
+```$bash
+scripts/tests/run.sh tests.charts.api_tests:ChartApiTests.test_get_charts --no-init
+```
+
+- Example for not recreating the test DB (will still run all the tests init procedures)
+```$bash
+scripts/tests/run.sh tests.charts.api_tests:ChartApiTests.test_get_charts --no-reset-db
+```
diff --git a/scripts/tests/run.sh b/scripts/tests/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..a4be3ec556257
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tests/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+set -e
+
+#
+# Reset test DATABASE
+#
+function reset_db() {
+  echo --------------------
+  echo Reseting test DB
+  echo --------------------
+  docker exec -i superset_db bash -c "/usr/bin/psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U ${DB_USER} -w -c 'DROP DATABASE ${DB_NAME};'"
+  docker exec -i superset_db bash -c "/usr/bin/psql -h 127.0.0.1 -U ${DB_USER} -w -c 'CREATE DATABASE ${DB_NAME};'"
+}
+
+#
+# Run init test procedures
+#
+function test_init() {
+  echo --------------------
+  echo Upgrading
+  echo --------------------
+  superset db upgrade
+  echo --------------------
+  echo Superset init
+  echo --------------------
+  superset init
+  echo --------------------
+  echo Load examples
+  echo --------------------
+  nosetests tests/load_examples_test.py
+}
+
+
+if [[ "$#" -eq  "0" ]]
+then
+  echo "No argument suplied"
+  echo ------------------------
+  echo use:
+  echo "run.sh <test module name> [options]"
+  echo "[options]:"
+  echo "--no-init: Dont restart docker and no db migrations, superset init and test data"
+  echo "--no-reset-db: Recreates test database (DROP, CREATE)"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+#
+# Init global vars
+#
+DB_NAME="test"
+DB_USER="superset"
+DB_PASSWORD="superset"
+export SUPERSET__SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI=${SUPERSET__SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI:-postgresql+psycopg2://"${DB_USER}":"${DB_PASSWORD}"@localhost/"${DB_NAME}"}
+export SUPERSET_CONFIG=${SUPERSET_CONFIG:-tests.superset_test_config}
+RUN_INIT=1
+RUN_RESET_DB=1
+TEST_MODULE="${1}"
+
+# Shift to pass the first cmd parameter for the test module
+shift 1
+
+PARAMS=""
+while (( "$#" )); do
+  case "$1" in
+    --no-init)
+      RUN_INIT=0
+      RUN_RESET_DB=0
+      shift 1
+      ;;
+    --no-reset-db)
+      RUN_RESET_DB=0
+      shift 1
+      ;;
+    --) # end argument parsing
+      shift
+      break
+      ;;
+    --*) # unsupported flags
+      echo "Error: Unsupported flag $1" >&2
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+    *) # preserve positional arguments
+      PARAMS="$PARAMS $1"
+      shift
+      ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+echo ------------------------------------
+echo DB_URI="${SUPERSET__SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI}"
+echo Superset config module="${SUPERSET_CONFIG}"
+echo Run init procedures=$RUN_INIT
+echo Run reset DB=$RUN_RESET_DB
+echo Test to run:"${TEST_MODULE}"
+echo ------------------------------------
+
+
+if [ $RUN_RESET_DB -eq 1 ]
+then
+  reset_db
+fi
+
+if [ $RUN_INIT -eq 1 ]
+then
+  test_init
+fi
+
+nosetests --exclude=load_examples_test "${TEST_MODULE}"