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Document unit tests in hacking.md

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```console
[nix-shell]$ make install
[nix-shell]$ make installcheck -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES
[nix-shell]$ make installcheck check -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES
[nix-shell]$ nix --version
nix (Nix) 2.12
```
For more information on running and filtering tests, see
[`testing.md`](./testing.md).
To build a release version of Nix for the current operating system and CPU architecture:
```console

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### Running tests
You can run the whole testsuite with `make check`, or the tests for a specific component with `make libfoo-tests_RUN`.
Finer-grained filtering is also possible using the [--gtest_filter](https://google.github.io/googletest/advanced.html#running-a-subset-of-the-tests) command-line option, or the `GTEST_FILTER` environment variable.
Finer-grained filtering is also possible using the [--gtest_filter](https://google.github.io/googletest/advanced.html#running-a-subset-of-the-tests) command-line option, or the `GTEST_FILTER` environment variable, e.g. `GTEST_FILTER='ErrorTraceTest.*' make check`.
### Characterisation testing { #characaterisation-testing-unit }