Support skipping the HTTP tests if necessary

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/TESTING b/TESTING
index 75ad654..fc5f400 100644
--- a/TESTING
+++ b/TESTING
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ to use set `HTTP_FIRST_TEST_PORT`.  This limitation means that if your `yarn`
 implementation parallelises scenarios, you must limit the parallelism to ten or
 else the HTTP tests will not run successfully.
 
+NOTE: If you are definitely not going to use Gitano in HTTP mode, and you do
+not want to run the HTTP tests, then you can disable them by passing in
+'SKIP_HTTP_TESTS=1' on the make command line.  Do not do this before submitting
+a patch for review as all tests will be run on potential merges.
+
 The fundamental parts of the `testing/` directory are
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