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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/development/linking-nixos-tests-to-packages.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/development/linking-nixos-tests-to-packages.section.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# Linking NixOS tests to packages {#sec-linking-nixos-tests-to-packages}
+
+You can link NixOS module tests to the packages that they exercised,
+so that the tests can be run automatically during code review when the package gets changed.
+This is
+[described in the nixpkgs manual](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#ssec-nixos-tests-linking).
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/development/nixos-tests.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/development/nixos-tests.xml
index 702fc03f668..67dc09fc715 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/development/nixos-tests.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/development/nixos-tests.xml
@@ -16,4 +16,5 @@ xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos/tests">nixos/test
  <xi:include href="../from_md/development/writing-nixos-tests.section.xml" />
  <xi:include href="../from_md/development/running-nixos-tests.section.xml" />
  <xi:include href="../from_md/development/running-nixos-tests-interactively.section.xml" />
+ <xi:include href="../from_md/development/linking-nixos-tests-to-packages.section.xml" />
 </chapter>