Note that if 2 failed it would say FAIL not pass, and it would also show the two failure outputs. Seeing "ok" means everything passed or was skipped.

If you want to build alternate displays, the new -json flag lets programs consume the test results and customize the output arbitrarily. That's probably the right thing to do instead of changing the default display.

@rsc Yes, true, if 2 failed it would say FAIL not pass - my bad.
-json flag is really great, and provides many helpful info,
but maybe it would be helpful to have flag -stat and provide info in 1 line like: total, took, skipped, etc...

what is the final outcome? -json is not giving satisfactory result.. was there any new command introduced? I could see issue is marked resolved.

We decided not to make a change here.

The reference to the -json output was meant to say that if you want an alternate display, you can run go test -json and pipe the data to another program that will read the JSON and format the output as you like.