googleapis · busunkim96 · Feb 9, 2021 · Feb 9, 2021
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -70,9 +70,14 @@ We use `nox <https://nox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`__ to instrument our tests.
 - To test your changes, run unit tests with ``nox``::

    $ nox -s unit-2.7
-    $ nox -s unit-3.7
+    $ nox -s unit-3.8
    $ ...

+- Args to pytest can be passed through the nox command separated by a `--`. For
+  example, to run a single test::
+
+    $ nox -s unit-3.8 -- -k <name of test>
+
  .. note::

    The unit tests and system tests are described in the
@@ -93,8 +98,12 @@ On Debian/Ubuntu::
 ************
 Coding Style
 ************
+- We use the automatic code formatter ``black``. You can run it using
+  the nox session ``blacken``. This will eliminate many lint errors. Run via::
+
+   $ nox -s blacken

- PEP8 compliance, with exceptions defined in the linter configuration.
+- PEP8 compliance is required, with exceptions defined in the linter configuration.
  If you have ``nox`` installed, you can test that you have not introduced
  any non-compliant code via::

@@ -133,13 +142,18 @@ Running System Tests

 - To run system tests, you can execute::

-   $ nox -s system-3.7
+   # Run all system tests
+   $ nox -s system-3.8
   $ nox -s system-2.7

+   # Run a single system test
+   $ nox -s system-3.8 -- -k <name of test>
+
+
  .. note::

      System tests are only configured to run under Python 2.7 and
-      Python 3.7. For expediency, we do not run them in older versions
+      Python 3.8. For expediency, we do not run them in older versions
      of Python 3.

  This alone will not run the tests. You'll need to change some local

diff --git a/synth.metadata b/synth.metadata
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@
      "git": {
        "name": ".",
        "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/python-cloud-core.git",
-        "sha": "4c834e26481572c6153ac8a26d8cb9b3d7e2bdca"
+        "sha": "ad39fc1fa883362c897cc82c5be23bb972c4cf9f"
      }
    },
    {
      "git": {
        "name": "synthtool",
        "remote": "https://github.com/googleapis/synthtool.git",
-        "sha": "33366574ffb9e11737b3547eb6f020ecae0536e8"
+        "sha": "4679e7e415221f03ff2a71e3ffad75b9ec41d87e"
      }
    }
  ],