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diff --git a/test/README b/test/README
index 0b547480..bde6db0c 100644
--- a/test/README
+++ b/test/README
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ notmuch-test script). Either command will run all available tests.
 
 Alternately, you can run a specific subset of tests by simply invoking
 one of the executable scripts in this directory, (such as ./search,
-./reply, etc.)
+./reply, etc). Note that you will probably want "make test-binaries"
+before running individual tests.
 
 The following command-line options are available when running tests:
 
@@ -55,6 +56,13 @@ can be specified as follows:
 
 	make test OPTIONS="--verbose"
 
+You can choose an emacs binary to run the tests in one of the
+following ways.
+
+	TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs make test
+	TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs ./emacs
+	make test TEST_EMACS=my-special-emacs
+
 Skipping Tests
 --------------
 If, for any reason, you need to skip one or more tests, you can do so
@@ -162,13 +170,6 @@ library for your script to use.
    robust method to compare formatted textual information, since it
    also notices whitespace and closing newline differences.
 
- test_expect_equal_failure <output> <expected>
-
-   This works similar to test_expect_equal (see above) but is used to
-   mark a test that demonstrates a known breakage, (that is, the
-   author of the test expects "output" and "expected" to differ until
-   the breakage is fixed). See test_expect_failure for details.
-
  test_debug <script>
 
    This takes a single argument, <script>, and evaluates it only
@@ -194,8 +195,8 @@ library for your script to use.
    is to summarize successes and failures in the test script and
    exit with an appropriate error code.
 
-There are also a number of mail-specific functions which are useful in
-writing tests:
+There are also a number of notmuch-specific auxiliary functions and
+variables which are useful in writing tests:
 
   generate_message
 
@@ -219,3 +220,15 @@ writing tests:
     will initialize the mail database to a known state of 50 sample
     messages, (culled from the early history of the notmuch mailing
     list).
+
+  notmuch_counter_reset
+  $notmuch_counter_command
+  notmuch_counter_value
+
+    These allow to count how many times notmuch binary is called.
+    notmuch_counter_reset() function generates a script that counts
+    how many times it is called and resets the counter to zero.  The
+    function sets $notmuch_counter_command variable to the path to the
+    generated script that should be called instead of notmuch to do
+    the counting.  The notmuch_counter_value() function prints the
+    current counter value.