diff --git a/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt b/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt
index 40636f3460..3439686210 100644
--- a/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/testing/advanced.txt
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ automatically as part of the setup of ``./manage.py test``. You only
 need to manually invoke this method if you're not using running your
 tests via Django's test runner.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 1.7
+
+If you are not using a management command to invoke the tests, you will also
+need to first setup Django itself using :func:`django.setup()`.
+
 .. _other-testing-frameworks:
 
 Using different testing frameworks