diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 28789b0b0..7b74cdaf1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+            <version>2.4</version>
+        </dependency>
         <!--TESTING-->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TestLogger.java b/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TestLogger.java
index 0c605857f..439b89f27 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TestLogger.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TestLogger.java
@@ -20,9 +20,17 @@
 package com.omertron.themoviedbapi;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.LogManager;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -69,4 +77,68 @@ public class TestLogger {
     public static boolean Configure() {
         return Configure("ALL");
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Test if a filename exists
+     *
+     * @param filename
+     * @return
+     */
+    public static boolean fileExists(String filename) {
+        return (new File(filename)).exists();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Load properties from a file
+     *
+     * @param props
+     * @param f
+     */
+    public static void loadProperties(Properties props, File f) {
+        InputStream is = null;
+        try {
+            is = new FileInputStream(f);
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            LOG.warn("Failed to load properties file", ex);
+        } finally {
+            if (is != null) {
+                try {
+                    is.close();
+                } catch (IOException ex) {
+                    LOG.warn("Failed to close properties file", ex);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Save properties to a file
+     *
+     * @param props
+     * @param propertyFile
+     * @param headerText
+     */
+    public static void saveProperties(Properties props, File propertyFile, String headerText) {
+        OutputStream out = null;
+
+        try {
+            out = new FileOutputStream(propertyFile);
+            if (StringUtils.isNotBlank(headerText)) {
+                props.store(out, headerText);
+            }
+        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
+            LOG.warn("Failed to find properties file", ex);
+        } catch (IOException ex) {
+            LOG.warn("Failed to read properties file", ex);
+        } finally {
+            if (out != null) {
+                try {
+                    out.flush();
+                    out.close();
+                } catch (IOException ex) {
+                    LOG.warn("Failed to close properties file", ex);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TheMovieDbApiTest.java b/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TheMovieDbApiTest.java
index 51875dba3..32e0c5e16 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TheMovieDbApiTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/omertron/themoviedbapi/TheMovieDbApiTest.java
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ import com.omertron.themoviedbapi.model.Trailer;
 import com.omertron.themoviedbapi.model.Translation;
 import com.omertron.themoviedbapi.results.TmdbResultsList;
 import com.omertron.themoviedbapi.results.TmdbResultsMap;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.math.NumberUtils;
 
 /**
  * Test cases for TheMovieDbApi API
@@ -78,7 +81,10 @@ public class TheMovieDbApiTest {
     // Logger
     private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TheMovieDbApiTest.class);
     // API Key
-    private static final String API_KEY = "INSERT_YOUR_KEY_HERE";
+    private static final String PROP_FIlENAME = "testing.properties";
+    private static String API_KEY;
+    private static String SESSION_ID_APITESTS;
+    private static int ACCOUNT_ID_APITESTS;
     private static TheMovieDbApi tmdb;
     // Test data
     private static final int ID_MOVIE_BLADE_RUNNER = 78;
@@ -94,8 +100,6 @@ public class TheMovieDbApiTest {
     private static final String LANGUAGE_ENGLISH = "en";
     private static final String LANGUAGE_RUSSIAN = "ru";
     // session and account id of test users named 'apitests'
-    private static final String SESSION_ID_APITESTS = "INSERT_YOUR_SESSION_ID_HERE";
-    private static final int ACCOUNT_ID_APITESTS = 6065849;
 
     public TheMovieDbApiTest() throws MovieDbException {
     }
@@ -104,6 +108,28 @@ public class TheMovieDbApiTest {
     public static void setUpClass() throws Exception {
         TestLogger.Configure();
         tmdb = new TheMovieDbApi(API_KEY);
+
+        Properties props = new Properties();
+        File f = new File(PROP_FIlENAME);
+        if (f.exists()) {
+            LOG.info("Loading properties from '{}'", PROP_FIlENAME);
+            TestLogger.loadProperties(props, f);
+
+            API_KEY = props.getProperty("API_Key");
+            SESSION_ID_APITESTS = props.getProperty("Account_ID");
+            ACCOUNT_ID_APITESTS = NumberUtils.toInt(props.getProperty("Session_ID"), 0);
+
+        } else {
+            LOG.info("Property file '{}' not found, creating dummy file.", PROP_FIlENAME);
+
+            props.setProperty("API_Key", "INSERT_YOUR_KEY_HERE");
+            props.setProperty("Account_ID", "ACCOUNT ID FOR SESSION TESTS");
+            props.setProperty("Session_ID", "INSERT_YOUR_SESSION_ID_HERE");
+
+            TestLogger.saveProperties(props, f, "Properties file for tests");
+            fail("Failed to get key information from properties file '" + PROP_FIlENAME + "'");
+        }
+
     }
 
     @AfterClass
diff --git a/testing.properties b/testing.properties
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac548e1cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#Properties file for tests
+#Fill in the details here
+Session_ID=INSERT_YOUR_SESSION_ID_HERE
+Account_ID=ACCOUNT ID FOR SESSION TESTS
+API_Key=INSERT_YOUR_KEY_HERE