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diff --git a/guides/source/active_storage_overview.md b/guides/source/active_storage_overview.md
index 97c56dfd93..c72a38b1de 100644
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+++ b/guides/source/active_storage_overview.md
@@ -556,6 +556,30 @@ config.active_job.queue_adapter = :inline
config.active_storage.service = :local_test
```
+Discarding Files Stored During Integration Tests
+-------------------------------------------
+
+Similarly to System Tests, files uploaded during Integration Tests will not be
+automatically cleaned up. If you want to clear the files, you can do it in an
+`after_teardown` callback. Doing it here ensures that all connections created
+during the test are complete and you won't receive an error from Active Storage
+saying it can't find a file.
+
+```ruby
+module ActionDispatch
+ class IntegrationTest
+ def remove_uploaded_files
+ FileUtils.rm_rf(Rails.root.join('tmp', 'storage'))
+ end
+
+ def after_teardown
+ super
+ remove_uploaded_files
+ end
+ end
+end
+```
+
Implementing Support for Other Cloud Services
---------------------------------------------
diff --git a/guides/source/testing.md b/guides/source/testing.md
index af6127f4a5..5d2b8bc5d6 100644
--- a/guides/source/testing.md
+++ b/guides/source/testing.md
@@ -462,6 +462,89 @@ Rails options:
-c, --[no-]color Enable color in the output
```
+Parallel Testing
+----------------
+
+Parallel testing allows you to parallelize your test suite. While forking processes is the
+default method, threading is supported as well. Running tests in parallel reduces the time it
+takes your entire test suite to run.
+
+## Parallel testing with processes
+
+The default parallelization method is to fork processes using Ruby's DRb system. The processes
+are forked based on the number of workers provided. The default is 2, but can be changed by the
+number passed to the parallelize method. Active Record automatically handles creating and
+migrating a new database for each worker to use.
+
+To enable parallelization add the following to your `test_helper.rb`:
+
+```
+class ActiveSupport::TestCase
+ parallelize(workers: 2)
+end
+```
+
+The number of workers passed is the number of times the process will be forked. You may want to
+parallelize your local test suite differently from your CI, so an environment variable is provided
+to be able to easily change the number of workers a test run should use:
+
+```
+PARALLEL_WORKERS=15 bin/rails test
+```
+
+When parallelizing tests, Active Record automatically handles creating and migrating a database for each
+process. The databases will be suffixed with the number corresponding to the worker. For example, if you
+have 2 workers the tests will create `test-database-0` and `test-database-1` respectively.
+
+If the number of workers passed is 1 or fewer the processes will not be forked and the tests will not
+be parallelized and the tests will use the original `test-database` database.
+
+Two hooks are provided, one runs when the process is forked, and one runs before the processes are closed.
+These can be useful if your app uses multiple databases or perform other tasks that depend on the number of
+workers.
+
+The `parallelize_setup` method is called right after the processes are forked. The `parallelize_teardown` metod
+is called right before the processes are closed.
+
+```
+class ActiveSupport::TestCase
+ parallelize_setup do |worker|
+ # setup databases
+ end
+
+ parallelize_teardown do |worker|
+ # cleanup database
+ end
+
+ parallelize(workers: 2)
+end
+```
+
+These methods are not needed or available when using parallel testing with threads.
+
+## Parallel testing with threads
+
+If you prefer using threads or are using JRuby, a threaded parallelization option is provided. The threaded
+parallelizer is backed by Minitest's `Parallel::Executor`.
+
+To change the parallelization method to use threads over forks put the following in your `test_helper.rb`
+
+```
+class ActiveSupport::TestCase
+ parallelize(workers: 2, with: :threads)
+end
+```
+
+Rails applications generated from JRuby will automatically include the `with: :threads` option.
+
+The number of workers passed to `parallelize` determines the number of threads the tests will use. You may
+want to parallelize your local test suite differently from your CI, so an environment variable is provided
+to be able to easily change the number of workers a test run should use:
+
+```
+PARALLEL_WORKERS=15 bin/rails test
+```
+
The Test Database
-----------------