diff --git a/doc/source/development.rst b/doc/source/development.rst
index 13b773267..66e666b4d 100644
--- a/doc/source/development.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development.rst
@@ -131,15 +131,14 @@ This will print any ``RAY_LOG(DEBUG)`` lines in the source code to the
 
 Testing locally
 ---------------
-Suppose that one of the tests (e.g., ``runtest.py``) is failing. You can run
-that test locally by running ``python test/runtest.py``. However, doing so will
-run all of the tests which can take a while. To run a specific test that is
+Suppose that one of the tests (e.g., ``test_basic.py``) is failing. You can run
+that test locally by running ``python -m pytest -v python/ray/tests/test_basic.py``. However, doing so will run all of the tests which can take a while. To run a specific test that is
 failing, you can do
 
 .. code-block:: shell
 
  cd ray
- python -m pytest -v test/runtest.py::test_keyword_args
+ python -m pytest -v python/ray/tests/test_basic.py::test_keyword_args
 
 When running tests, usually only the first test failure matters. A single
 test failure often triggers the failure of subsequent tests in the same
diff --git a/doc/source/installation.rst b/doc/source/installation.rst
index 6fd6c69dd..2b5f19f8c 100644
--- a/doc/source/installation.rst
+++ b/doc/source/installation.rst
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ that you've cloned the git repository.
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-  python -m pytest -v test/mini_test.py
+  python -m pytest -v python/ray/tests/test_mini.py
 
 Cleaning the source tree
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/python/ray/tests/test_recursion.py b/python/ray/tests/test_recursion.py
index 0b3b68351..5af4fa15b 100644
--- a/python/ray/tests/test_recursion.py
+++ b/python/ray/tests/test_recursion.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This test is not inside of runtest.py because when a recursive remote
+# This test is not inside of test_basic.py because when a recursive remote
 # function is defined inside of another function, we currently can't handle
 # that.