diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/testing.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/testing.txt
index 5a09c6095e..7d93c18d17 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/testing.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/testing.txt
@@ -147,6 +147,6 @@ be performed when executing the command::
 
     $ ./runtests.py --settings=postgis
 
-To run only the GeoDjango test suite, specify ``django.contrib.gis``::
+To run only the GeoDjango test suite, specify ``gis_tests``::
 
-    $ ./runtests.py --settings=postgis django.contrib.gis
+    $ ./runtests.py --settings=postgis gis_tests