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-rw-r--r--README.rst10
-rw-r--r--changelog.d/8666.doc1
-rw-r--r--tox.ini5
3 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d609b4b62e..59d5a4389b 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -256,9 +256,9 @@ directory of your choice::
 Synapse has a number of external dependencies, that are easiest
 to install using pip and a virtualenv::
 
-    virtualenv -p python3 env
-    source env/bin/activate
-    python -m pip install --no-use-pep517 -e ".[all]"
+    python3 -m venv ./env
+    source ./env/bin/activate
+    pip install -e ".[all,test]"
 
 This will run a process of downloading and installing all the needed
 dependencies into a virtual env.
@@ -270,9 +270,9 @@ check that everything is installed as it should be::
 
 This should end with a 'PASSED' result::
 
-    Ran 143 tests in 0.601s
+    Ran 1266 tests in 643.930s
 
-    PASSED (successes=143)
+    PASSED (skips=15, successes=1251)
 
 Running the Integration Tests
 =============================
diff --git a/changelog.d/8666.doc b/changelog.d/8666.doc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dee86b4a26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/8666.doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Minor updates to docs on running tests.
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 6a507d3012..c232676826 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -24,11 +24,6 @@ deps =
     pip>=10
 
 setenv =
-    # we have a pyproject.toml, but don't want pip to use it for building.
-    # (otherwise we get an error about 'editable mode is not supported for
-    # pyproject.toml-style projects').
-    PIP_USE_PEP517 = false
-
     PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE = no_byte_code
     COVERAGE_PROCESS_START = {toxinidir}/.coveragerc