Back on this suggestion ... It would be very helpful if a new option AM_TESTS_NAME=1 ... RUNNING $name
Looking into it now, I believe this can be done already using AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT (or by an individual user with TESTS_ENVIRONMENT). The test name is the shell variable $f at that point. Thus: make AM_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT='echo RUNNING: "$$f";' check seems to give the desired output for me. Although the use of $f here is not documented, in practice it is never going to change. Seems way simpler than adding this to Automake ... --best, karl.