This post describes how to set up a new Scala 2.11.7 project with ScalaTest 2.2.4 support using sbt 0.13.9 on Mac OS X 10.11 “El Capitan” with Java 1.8. If set up as describes below, you can manage your project via sbt, and you will be able to run your test cases via sbt test. Also, after setting things up this way, the project can be opened and used in IntelliJ IDEA 14 as an sbt project.