docs for explicit backend selection and document name attribute of backend

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
index 8e32c368..3710abee 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -250,6 +250,16 @@ each supported Python version and run the tests. For example:
 You may not have all the required Python versions installed, in which case you
 will see one or more ``InterpreterNotFound`` errors.
 
+
+Explicit Backend Selection
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+While testing you may want to run tests against a subset of the backends that
+cryptography supports. Explicit backend selection can be done via the
+``--backend`` flag. This flag should be passed to ``py.test`` with a comma
+delimited list of backend names. To use it with ``tox`` you must pass it as
+``-- --backend``.
+
 Building Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst
index 404573a3..042ee87d 100644
--- a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst
+++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@ The `OpenSSL`_ C library.
 
 .. data:: cryptography.hazmat.backends.openssl.backend
 
-    This is the exposed API for the OpenSSL backend. It has no public attributes.    
+    This is the exposed API for the OpenSSL backend. It has one public attribute.
+
+    .. attribute:: name
+
+    The string name of the backend.
 
 Using your own OpenSSL on Linux
 -------------------------------