diff -r f4679382ab71 runtests.rst --- a/runtests.rst Fri Apr 18 21:35:25 2014 -0700 +++ b/runtests.rst Sat Apr 26 21:36:14 2014 -0700 @@ -39,12 +39,17 @@ ./python -m test -h -If you want to run a single test, simply specify the test name as an argument. -You also probably want to enable verbose mode (using ``-v``), so that individual -failures are detailed:: +If you want to run a single test file, simply specify the test file name +(without the extension) as an argument. You also probably want to enable +verbose mode (using ``-v``), so that individual failures are detailed:: ./python -m test -v test_abc +To run a single test case, use the ``unittest`` module, providing the import +path to the test case:: + + ./python -m unittest -v test.test_abc.TestABC + If you have a multi-core or multi-CPU machine, you can enable parallel testing using several Python processes so as to speed up things::