# HG changeset patch
# User Thomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
# Date 2017-07-01 20:39:41
# Node ID 043621a79cdb2e51c16362b9effd5f204668f57b
# Parent  02c820c5c48e1d848fb57d5121c2d1416542f9b5

docs: mention pytest-profiling

Could be useful for analysis of performance problems.

diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ To run these tests::
 
     env TEST_PERFORMANCE=1 py.test kallithea/tests/performance
 
+To analyze performance, you could install pytest-profiling_, which enables the
+--profile and --profile-svg options to py.test.
+
+.. _pytest-profiling: https://github.com/manahl/pytest-plugins/tree/master/pytest-profiling
+
 
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