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improve find fqbn FAQ (#274)
As reported in multiple issues (#138 #191 #271) finding the right FQBN for a board can be difficult. Improving the documentation may help users to find the relevant information. Specifically, this PR closes #271 and add little improvement as suggested in #191.
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#### How can I find the core/FQBN for a board?
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Update the core index to have latest boards informations:
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$ arduino-cli core update-index
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Updating index: package_index.json downloaded
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See: https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli#step-4-find-and-install-the-right-core
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Further help can be found in [this comment](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/issues/138#issuecomment-459169051) in [#138](https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/issues/138).
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For a deeper understanding of how FQBN works, you should understand Arduino Hardware specification. You can find more information in this [arduino/Arduino wiki page](https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/wiki/Arduino-IDE-1.5-3rd-party-Hardware-specification)
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# Testing
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Currently Unit and Integration test are available for launch in 2 ways:
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* test-unit-race: Run unit tests only with race condition detection
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For Example to launch unit tests only run: `task test-unit`
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For Example to launch unit tests only run: `task test-unit`

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