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proposal: cmd/go: change go test to FAIL if -run is specified but no tests match #64500

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hyangah opened this issue Dec 1, 2023 · 2 comments
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proposal: cmd/go: change go test to FAIL if -run is specified but no tests match #64500

hyangah opened this issue Dec 1, 2023 · 2 comments
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hyangah commented Dec 1, 2023

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If -run is provided but there is no test matching the pattern, go test currently considers the test run PASS and exits with 0.

$ go test -run=Test_sum/1_+_1
testing: warning: no tests to run
PASS
ok      example/test    0.133s

Even though there is a warning like "testing: warning: no tests to run", this is easy to miss or dropped when the test binary runs by other runners (ide plugins, dlv, ..). I think when users set -run and if there is no matching test, that's likely not what users wanted, and treating it like misuse of command is more appropriate.
@dmitshur dmitshur added NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. GoCommand cmd/go labels Dec 1, 2023
@dmitshur dmitshur added this to the Backlog milestone Dec 1, 2023
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dmitshur commented Dec 1, 2023

CC @bcmills, @matloob.

Slightly related, but in the opposite direction: go test and go vet currently print a warning and also exit with a fatal error when an import path pattern matches 0 packages (#31271, #52287), which can create overhead for a CI system wishing to permit modules that are empty or have packages for a subset of Go's ports, since they have no choice but need to convert such false-positive failures to successes on their own.

@bcmills bcmills changed the title cmd/go: change go test to FAIL if -run is specified but no tests match proposal: cmd/go: change go test to FAIL if -run is specified but no tests match Dec 1, 2023
@bcmills bcmills modified the milestones: Backlog, Proposal Dec 1, 2023
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