On 13 Nov 2013, at 7:36 am, Szczepan Faber <szczepan.fa...@gradleware.com> wrote:
> Heya, > > I'm keen on solving this use case: developer in a large app has tons of long > running tests. He wants to run only a *single* test from the command line > (e.g. we currently support *all* tests from a *single* test class via > test.single). > > There's also a pull request: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/193 that > shows that the community is also keen on getting it sorted out. > > How do we want approach this? > > 1. Make the test.includes / test.excludes more robust and support some kind > of notation like "SomeTest#someMethod". This is kind of awkward because Test > extends PatternFilterable that clearly defines what are includes and excludes > (they are not test methods, they are ant file patterns). On the plus side, > this would work with our existing means of specifying includes/excludes > (existing DSL, existing test.single property) > > 2. Add some new API for this, for example: > > test.selection.include ... > > It might be good to put the test selection api behind some new DSL > layer/object (e.g. 'selection') because it can potentially grow: > include/exclude tests by some custom criteria, e.g. test class hierarchy, > etc. BTW. for the latter we have use cases in our own codebase (cross version > tests now are picked up by naming convention but it would be nicer if they > were picked up by parent class, etc.). > > If we go down this path, we need to add command line support for it and > perhaps consider deprecation of the existing include / exclude. > > Do we have some other options? Thoughts? I’d go with option #2. The current includes and excludes are really intended to specify where to look for tests. Option 2 adds another filter over this to specify some criteria to use for selecting tests (beyond where they physically live). I’d also add command-line support and deprecate the system property. -- Adam Murdoch Gradle Co-founder http://www.gradle.org VP of Engineering, Gradleware Inc. - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com
