diff --git a/docs/building-spark.md b/docs/building-spark.md
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@@ -215,19 +215,23 @@ If you are building Spark for use in a Python environment and you wish to pip in
 
 Alternatively, you can also run make-distribution with the --pip option.
 
-## PySpark Tests with Maven
+## PySpark Tests with Maven or SBT
 
 If you are building PySpark and wish to run the PySpark tests you will need to build Spark with Hive support.
 
     ./build/mvn -DskipTests clean package -Phive
     ./python/run-tests
 
+If you are building PySpark with SBT and wish to run the PySpark tests, you will need to build Spark with Hive support and also build the test components:
+
+    ./build/sbt -Phive clean package
+    ./build/sbt test:compile
+    ./python/run-tests
+
 The run-tests script also can be limited to a specific Python version or a specific module
 
     ./python/run-tests --python-executables=python --modules=pyspark-sql
 
-**Note:** You can also run Python tests with an sbt build, provided you build Spark with Hive support.
-
 ## Running R Tests
 
 To run the SparkR tests you will need to install the [knitr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=knitr), [rmarkdown](https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmarkdown), [testthat](https://cran.r-project.org/package=testthat), [e1071](https://cran.r-project.org/package=e1071) and [survival](https://cran.r-project.org/package=survival) packages first: