diff --git a/docs/developers/devel-env.rst b/docs/developers/devel-env.rst
index 32430404b0..c7d4fd3bf7 100644
--- a/docs/developers/devel-env.rst
+++ b/docs/developers/devel-env.rst
@@ -273,10 +273,10 @@ once so that subsequent running of the tests is faster:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-   ./test.sh -u                      # build unit test containers, start up and initialise the database
-   ./test.sh [path-to-test-file.py]  # run tests, do this as often as you need to
-   ./test.sh -s                      # stop test containers, but don't remove them
-   ./test.sh -d                      # stop and remove all test containers
+   ./test.sh -u                                 # build unit test containers, start up and initialise the database
+   ./test.sh [path-to-tests-file-or-directory]  # run specific tests, do this as often as you need to
+   ./test.sh -s                                 # stop test containers, but don't remove them
+   ./test.sh -d                                 # stop and remove all test containers
 
 If you made any changes to the frontend, you can run the tests for frontend using
 
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
index ef9ee73cd3..68aaab086d 100755
--- a/test.sh
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ fi
 # ./test.sh                build unit test containers, bring up, make database, test, bring down
 # for development:
 # ./test.sh -u             build unit test containers, bring up background and load database if needed
-# ./test.sh [params]       run unit tests, passing optional params to inner test
+# ./test.sh [path-to-tests-file-or-directory]  # run specific tests
 # ./test.sh -s             stop unit test containers without removing
 # ./test.sh -d             clean unit test containers