@@ -17,29 +17,29 @@ Running and writing tests
1717Running
1818=======
1919
20- The shortest, simplest way of running the test suite is the following command
21- from the root directory of your checkout (after you have
22- :ref: `built Python <compiling >`):
20+ The shortest, simplest way of running the test suite is the following command,
21+ which runs tests in parallel, from the root directory of your checkout
22+ (after you have :ref: `built Python <compiling >`):
2323
2424.. tab :: Unix
2525
2626 .. code-block :: shell
2727
28- ./python -m test
28+ ./python -m test -j0
2929
3030 .. tab :: macOS
3131
3232 .. code-block :: shell
3333
34- ./python.exe -m test
34+ ./python.exe -m test -j0
3535
3636 This works on :ref: `most <mac-python.exe >` macOS systems.
3737
3838.. tab :: Windows
3939
4040 .. code-block :: dosbatch
4141
42- .\python.bat -m test
42+ .\python.bat -m test -j0
4343
4444 This will run the majority of tests, but exclude a small portion of them; these
4545excluded tests use special kinds of resources: for example, accessing the
@@ -139,26 +139,7 @@ But, there are several important notes:
139139 In other words: if some module does not have ``unittest.main() ``, then
140140 most likely it does not support direct invocation.
141141
142- If you have a multi-core or multi-CPU machine, you can enable parallel testing
143- using several Python processes so as to speed up things:
144-
145- .. tab :: Unix
146-
147- .. code-block :: shell
148-
149- ./python -m test -j0
150-
151- .. tab :: macOS
152-
153- .. code-block :: shell
154-
155- ./python.exe -m test -j0
156142
157- .. tab :: Windows
158-
159- .. code-block :: dosbatch
160-
161- .\python.bat -m test -j0
162143
163144.. _strenuous_testing :
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