diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3c838c93..687f21a3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ init:
 	pip install -r requirements.txt
 
 test:
-	py.test
+	# This runs all of the tests. To run an individual test, run py.test with
+	# the -k flag, like "py.test -k test_path_is_not_double_encoded"
+	py.test test_requests.py
 
 coverage:
 	py.test --verbose --cov-report term --cov=requests test_requests.py