# Can't seem to get test manual parallelization to work

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-seem-to-get-test-manual-parallelization-to-work/12249>\
**Category:** Build Environment\
**Tags:** npm, parallelism, config, configuration\
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-seem-to-get-test-manual-parallelization-to-work/12249 "2017-04-27T19:03:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Troop4Christ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Troop4Christ](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Troop4Christ)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:03pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-seem-to-get-test-manual-parallelization-to-work/12249/1 "2017-04-27T19:03:44Z")

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I’m trying to get this feature from the docs to work: [https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/parallel-manual-setup/#a-simple-example](https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/parallel-manual-setup/#a-simple-example)

I went ahead and put this into my `test` section:

```auto
override:
    - case $CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX in 0) npm run test-server ;; 1) npm run test-ui ;; esac:
        parallel: true

```

I committed and pushed the working branch… the builds that ran, now don’t list the `test` section at all.

What am I doing wrong??

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**Author:** ![Troop4Christ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Troop4Christ](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/Troop4Christ)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-seem-to-get-test-manual-parallelization-to-work/12249/2 "2017-04-27T19:19:07Z")

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Nevermind… it’s running… had to scroll down further… it’s not running as it says here:

[https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/configuration/](https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/configuration/)

> Each section consists of settings and/or Bash commands, which are run in the order they appear in the file.

It’s running _after_ my `compile` section… which is _way_ down in my `circle.yml` file.

Maybe someone should update this doc?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/original/3X/5/1/511608acda8e85906e15909b57bd0a46c1dbe291.png) [@system](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2018, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/cant-seem-to-get-test-manual-parallelization-to-work/12249/3 "2018-06-18T11:32:31Z")

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