diff --git a/paddle/scripts/docker/README.md b/paddle/scripts/docker/README.md
index e5af5c9a1e6f96c5112895a1ec0b0c6ac57da666..7c90316ad82a6430d6c12d72e07b166b6d9d98a9 100644
--- a/paddle/scripts/docker/README.md
+++ b/paddle/scripts/docker/README.md
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ docker build -t paddle:dev --build-arg UBUNTU_MIRROR=mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com
 Given the development image `paddle:dev`, the following command builds PaddlePaddle from the source tree on the development computer (host):
 
 ```bash
-docker run -v $PWD:/paddle -e "WITH_GPU=OFF" -e "WITH_AVX=ON" -e "TEST=OFF" paddle:dev
+docker run -v $PWD:/paddle -e "WITH_GPU=OFF" -e "WITH_AVX=ON" -e "WITH_TEST=OFF" -e "RUN_TEST=OFF" paddle:dev
 ```
 
 This command mounts the source directory on the host into `/paddle` in the container, so the default entry point of `paddle:dev`, `build.sh`, could build the source code with possible local changes.  When it writes to `/paddle/build` in the container, it writes to `$PWD/build` on the host indeed.
@@ -108,7 +108,11 @@ This command mounts the source directory on the host into `/paddle` in the conta
 Users can specify the following Docker build arguments with either "ON" or "OFF" value:
 - `WITH_GPU`: ***Required***. Generates NVIDIA CUDA GPU code and relies on CUDA libraries.
 - `WITH_AVX`: ***Required***. Set to "OFF" prevents from generating AVX instructions. If you don't know what is AVX, you might want to set "ON".
-- `TEST`: ***Optional, default OFF***. Build unit tests and run them after building.
+- `WITH_TEST`: ***Optional, default OFF***. Build unit tests binaries. Once you've built the unit tests, you can run these test manually by the following command:
+  ```bash
+    docker run -v $PWD:/paddle -e "WITH_GPU=OFF" -e "WITH_AVX=ON" paddle:dev sh -c "cd /paddle/build; make coverall"
+  ```
+- `RUN_TEST`: ***Optional, default OFF***. Run unit tests after building. You can't run unit tests without building it.
 
 ### Build the Production Docker Image
 
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
index 8d50ced23fc7430edd23d380c9fa12b2cd200a39..a0da561dfe962b7a0a0515d4104940175ebdecad 100644
--- a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
+++ b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ cmake .. \
       -DWITH_SWIG_PY=ON \
       -DCUDNN_ROOT=/usr/ \
       -DWITH_STYLE_CHECK=${WITH_STYLE_CHECK:-OFF} \
-      -DWITH_COVERAGE=${TEST:-OFF} \
+      -DON_COVERALLS=${WITH_TEST:-OFF} \
       -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON
 make -j `nproc`
-if [[ ${TEST:-OFF} == "ON" ]]; then
+if [[ ${RUN_TEST:-OFF} == "ON" ]]; then
     make coveralls
 fi
 make install