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Expand Up @@ -165,6 +165,18 @@ a failure, drop the ``-j`` flag:
To limit how many tests run at once, pass an explicit number of
worker processes instead, such as ``-j2``.

To check that the test suite is included in an installed build, install Python
to a fresh prefix and run the test suite with that installation. For example,
on Unix::

./configure --prefix=/tmp/cpython-install
make -j3
make install
/tmp/cpython-install/bin/python3 -m test -j3

Using the installed interpreter is important: running ``./python -m test`` from
the checkout tests the build tree, not the installed files.

.. _strenuous_testing:

Finally, if you want to run tests under a more strenuous set of settings, you
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