diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0dfdfda..114bd34 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,6 +2,5 @@ build/
 dist/
 *~
 *.pyc
-tests/paper_test
 papers.egg-info
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/tests/.gitignore b/tests/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..77eb33e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+tmpdir*
+*.bak
diff --git a/tests/test.sh b/tests/test.sh
index 7bfba55..739b7db 100755
--- a/tests/test.sh
+++ b/tests/test.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-rm -Rf paper_test/*;
-papers init -p paper_test/;
+rm -Rf tmpdir/*;
+papers init -p tmpdir/;
 papers add -d data/pagerank.pdf -b data/pagerank.bib;
 papers list;
 papers tag;
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ papers tag Page99 network+search;
 papers tag Page99;
 papers tag search;
 papers tag 0;
-rm -Rf paper_test/*;
+rm -Rf tmpdir/*;