diff --git a/unit_tests/src/test_genquery1_flex_bison_parser.cpp b/unit_tests/src/test_genquery1_flex_bison_parser.cpp
index 7177443025..91c542c429 100644
--- a/unit_tests/src/test_genquery1_flex_bison_parser.cpp
+++ b/unit_tests/src/test_genquery1_flex_bison_parser.cpp
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@ TEST_CASE("GenQuery1 flex bison parser maintains backward compatibility with ori
     // input struct.
 
     // Open file containing list of GenQuery1 query strings. This list of queries was
-    // produced from the test suite.
+    // generated from the unit and core test suites using the following steps:
+    //
+    //   1. Modify fillGenQueryInpFromStrCond() so that it appends each query string to a local file.
+    //      The file is written to a directory which is automatically captured by the testing
+    //      environment (e.g. /var/log/irods).
+    //   2. If the tests were run in parallel, take each file (now stored on the host) and concatenate them.
+    //   3. Clean up file contents (i.e. dedup lines, etc).
     const auto file_path = irods::get_irods_home_directory() / "unit_tests/genquery1_backwards_compatibility_queries.txt";
     std::ifstream in{file_path.generic_string()};
     REQUIRE(in);
@@ -429,4 +435,4 @@ auto separateSelFuncFromAttr(char* t, char** aggOp, char** colNm) -> int
     }
     *s = '\0';
     return 0;
-}
+} // separateSelFuncFromAttr