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@@ -199,6 +199,47 @@ The tests assume a Linux environment and can be started with make:
 make test
 ```
 
+Tests are implemented in C in the .toml files found in the `tests` directory.
+When developing a feature or fixing a bug, it is frequently useful to run a
+single test case or suite of tests:
+
+``` bash
+./scripts/test.py -l runners/test_runner  # list available test suites
+./scripts/test.py -L runners/test_runner test_dirs  # list available test cases
+./scripts/test.py runners/test_runner test_dirs  # run a specific test suite
+```
+
+If an assert fails in a test, test.py will try to print information about the
+failure:
+
+``` bash
+tests/test_dirs.toml:1:failure: test_dirs_root:1g12gg2 (PROG_SIZE=16, ERASE_SIZE=512) failed
+tests/test_dirs.toml:5:assert: assert failed with 0, expected eq 42
+    lfs_mount(&lfs, cfg) => 42;
+```
+
+This includes the test id, which can be passed to test.py to run only that
+specific test permutation:
+
+``` bash
+./scripts/test.py runners/test_runner test_dirs_root:1g12gg2  # run a specific test permutation
+./scripts/test.py runners/test_runner test_dirs_root:1g12gg2 --gdb  # drop into gdb on failure
+```
+
+Some other flags that may be useful:
+
+```bash
+./scripts/test.py runners/test_runner -b -j  # run tests in parallel
+./scripts/test.py runners/test_runner -v -O-  # redirect stdout to stdout
+./scripts/test.py runners/test_runner -ddisk  # capture resulting disk image
+```
+
+See `-h/--help` for a full list of available flags:
+
+``` bash
+./scripts/test.py --help
+```
+
 ## License
 
 The littlefs is provided under the [BSD-3-Clause] license. See