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Clean up documentation about test concurrency

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Calen Pennington
2016-06-15 11:20:11 -04:00
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@@ -208,10 +208,16 @@ To run a single test format the command like this.
paver test_system -t lms/djangoapps/courseware/tests/tests.py:ActivateLoginTest.test_activate_login
The ``lms`` suite of tests runs concurrently, and with randomized order, by default.
You can override these by using ``--no-randomize`` to disable randomization,
and ``--processes=N`` to control how many tests will run concurrently (``0`` will
disable concurrency). For example:
The ``lms`` suite of tests runs with randomized order, by default.
You can override these by using ``--no-randomize`` to disable randomization.
You can also enable test concurrency with the ``--processes=N`` flag (where ``N``
is the number of processes to run tests with, and ``-1`` means one process per
available core). Note, however, that when running concurrently, breakpoints may
not work correctly, and you will not be able to run single test methods (only
single test classes).
For example:
::
# This will run all tests in the order that they appear in their files, serially