[CI] Add READMEs for unit test directory structure (#20626)

test/registered/unit/README.md

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+# Unit Tests
+
+Component-level tests that do **not** launch a server or load model weights.
+Tests can use CPU or GPU — the key criterion is **no server process**.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+1. Find the source file under `python/sglang/srt/`.
+2. Create the corresponding test here, mirroring the source tree:
+   ```
+   srt/mem_cache/radix_cache.py       →  unit/mem_cache/test_radix_cache.py
+   srt/sampling/sampling_params.py    →  unit/sampling/test_sampling_params.py
+   ```
+3. Register for CI at the **top of the file** (after imports, before test classes):
+   ```python
+   from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
+   register_cpu_ci(est_time=5, suite="stage-a-cpu-only")
+   # or: register_cuda_ci(est_time=10, suite="stage-b-test-small-1-gpu")
+   ```
+4. Run locally:
+   ```bash
+   pytest test/registered/unit/ -v            # all unit tests
+   pytest test/registered/unit/mem_cache/ -v  # one module
+   ```
+
+## Example
+
+```python
+"""Unit tests for <module> — no server, no model loading."""
+
+from sglang.test.ci.ci_register import register_cpu_ci
+
+register_cpu_ci(est_time=5, suite="stage-a-cpu-only")
+
+import unittest
+
+from sglang.srt.<module> import TargetClass
+
+
+class TestTargetClass(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_basic_behavior(self):
+        obj = TargetClass(...)
+        self.assertEqual(obj.method(), expected)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
+```
+
+## Rules
+
+- **No** `popen_launch_server()` or `Engine(...)`.
+- **No** model weight loading.
+- Use `unittest.TestCase` or `CustomTestCase` (from `sglang.test.test_utils`, adds CI retry).
+- Use `unittest.mock` for dependencies that are expensive to construct.