Update Unit-tests.md (#10515)

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 useful, for example, when you run the tests on Travis-CI, Jenkins and
 the like.

+**Timeout**
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+In the test case options, the `timeout` option is specified in a number of seconds.
+
+To disable timeout in test cases, add `timeout: 0` or negative value to allow infinite duration for test case to completes. Alternatively, `timeout_multiplier: 0` accomplish the same functionality as `timeout: 0`.
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+For running test, you can specify command line argument for overriding timeout as well by supplying `--timeout-multiplier 0` command line argument. 
+
 For further information see the command line help of Meson by running
 `meson test -h`.