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authorAshish Kumar <ashfame@users.noreply.github.com>2022-09-28 16:44:35 +0530
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-09-28 11:14:35 +0000
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Add instruction for running unit tests in parallel (#13928)
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 poetry run trial tests
 ```
 
+You can run unit tests in parallel by specifying `-jX` argument to `trial` where `X` is the number of parallel runners you want. To use 4 cpu cores, you would run them like:
+
+```sh
+poetry run trial -j4 tests
+```
+
 If you wish to only run *some* unit tests, you may specify
 another module instead of `tests` - or a test class or a method: