{"id": "contributing:contributing-running-tests", "page": "contributing", "ref": "contributing-running-tests", "title": "Running the tests", "content": "Once you have done this, you can run the Datasette unit tests from inside your  datasette/  directory using  pytest  like so: \n             pytest \n             You can run the tests faster using multiple CPU cores with  pytest-xdist  like this: \n             pytest -n auto -m \"not serial\" \n             -n auto  detects the number of available cores automatically. The  -m \"not serial\"  skips tests that don't work well in a parallel test environment. You can run those tests separately like so: \n             pytest -m \"serial\"", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Contributing\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://docs.pytest.org/\", \"label\": \"pytest\"}, {\"href\": \"https://pypi.org/project/pytest-xdist/\", \"label\": \"pytest-xdist\"}]"}