How to avoid running particular test with -run flag without skipping?

Question

I know that I can specify which tests are meant to run by using -run flag like so:

go test -run=TestUpdateAll//Assignments

But how can I do that to make go test not run a particular test?

Let's say I don't wont the above test to be run. How to do that?

EDIT

Maybe this is crucial to understand my problem: the tests that I'd like to run are generated by third party tools with which I'm still trying to resolve an issue that's causing the above.

Therefore I cannot really add flags in source or use t.Skip() etc.

You'd have to write an elaborate regexp which matches anything but the test to exclude. There is no direct "exclude this" flag. — Volker, Mar 26 '20 at 10:48
Does this answer your question? [Skip some tests with go test](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24030059/skip-some-tests-with-go-test) — Paul Hankin, Mar 26 '20 at 11:35
Does this answer your question? https://stackoverflow.com/q/55224561/13860 — Jonathan Hall, Mar 26 '20 at 15:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '20 at 11:33

There's no direct way to do this (that doesn't involve constructing a regexp that matches everything except your set of tests), but you can add a flag yourself if you have a specific test (or set of tests) you'd like to skip frequently.

In your test file:

var skipPlz = flag.Bool("skip_assignments", false, "skip the assignments test")

func TestAssignments(t *testing.T) {
   if *skipPlz { t.Skip("-skip_assignments set") }
   .. remainder of test
}

With this code, you can run your go test command with the -skip_assignments flag to skip this test.

Thanks for your answer. Can you see my edit? That should shed some more light on my problem. — Patryk, Mar 26 '20 at 11:53

How to avoid running particular test with -run flag without skipping?

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