Running tests and skipping some packages

Question

Is it possible to skip directories from testing. For example given the structure below is it possible to test mypackage, mypackage/other and mypackage/net but not mypackage/

Answer 1

Go test takes a list of packages to test on the command line (see go help packages) so you can test an arbitrary set of packages with a single invocation like so:

go test import/path/to/mypackage import/path/to/mypackage/other import/path/to/mypackage/net

Or, depending on your shell:

go test import/path/to/mypackage{,/other,/net}

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You might be able to use interesting invocations of go list as the arguments (again, depending on your shell):

go test `go list`

Your comment says you want to skip one sub-directory so (depending on your shell) perhaps this:

go test `go list ./... | grep -v directoriesToSkip`

as with anything, if you do that a lot you could make a shell alias/whatever for it.

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If the reason you want to skip tests is, for example, that you have long/expensive tests that you often want to skip, than the tests themselves could/should check testing.Short() and call t.Skip() as appropriate.

Then you could run either:

go test -short import/path/to/mypackage/...

or from within the mypackage directory:

go test -short ./...

You can use things other testing.Short() to trigger skipping as well.