diff --git a/docs/testing.md b/docs/testing.md
index 42de70f..c29e5ee 100644
--- a/docs/testing.md
+++ b/docs/testing.md
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ To run tests:
 1. create a Postgres database called `capsulflask_test`
   - e.g.: `docker exec -it 98e1ddfbbffb createdb -U postgres -O postgres capsulflask_test`
     - (`98e1ddfbbffb` is the docker container ID of the postgres container)
-2. run `python3 -m unittest`
+2. run `python3 -m unittest && cat unittest-log-output.log && rm unittest-log-output.log`
+
+**NOTE** that right now we can't figure out how to get the tests to properly output the log messages that happened when they failed, (or passed),  so for now we have hacked it to write to a file.
 
 ### Architecture