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 ## Run All Tests
 
+**Read through the rest of this document before you do this, so you know what the tests do.**
+
 To run all of Flintrock's tests, just run:
 
 ```sh
-py.test
+py.test --verbose
 ```
 
-Read through the rest of this document before you do that, though, so you know what the tests do.
+The complete test run is quite long, so you'll want the `--verbose` flag so you can track pytest's progress.
 
 
 ## Style Tests