I haven’t been able to find a reference about how the Testing pane in VS Code works for a Julia project’s unit tests. I’ve fiddled around a bit and tried various of file layouts (test_*.jl vs. *_test.jl, putting in a MyTestModule, etc.) runners (TestItemRunner, ReTest, ReTestItems, etc.) macros (@…

[image] Prerelease of new testing framework and test run UI in VS Code VS Code I just pushed out a new release of the Julia VS Code extension (1.7.6) to everyone that includes a preview of our new test UI and a general new testing framework for Julia. For a sh…

I’ve seen TestItemRunner and tried it but couldn’t get it to work with the GUI. That’s one reason I’m asking what the Testing pane is actually doing, so I can see if I’m complying with its expectations.

The testing pane will only show @testitems, i.e. the stuff I described in the linked post. Can you describe what didn’t work when you tried it? And maybe show a code example?

It’s a little hard for me to remember everything that wasn’t working, because I was flailing around trying to get things working, trying things kind of at random. And unfortunately this is a proprietary codebase so it would take some time to distill it down to something I could share. But I think …

Take a look at this post: Prerelease of new testing framework and test run UI in VS Code - #22 by lmiq With that step by step you should get things working. There are some things there that are not needed (using package inside each test item), but do no harm.

Another thing that confused me is that (because I had read @davidanthoff 's post) I thought that the only way to get the Testing pane to show tests (and be able to run them individually, etc.) was to start using the “test items” stuff. But then yesterday a co-worker showed me his setup where he’s u…

[image] Ken_Williams: Couldn’t get tests to appear in the Testing pane If you could reproduce that it would be great! At the moment I’m not aware of any bugs in the test detection logic. [image] Ken_Williams: Couldn’t get initialization code to run Yes, that feature is just not finish…

[image] davidanthoff: [image] Ken_Williams: Couldn’t get tests to appear in the Testing pane If you could reproduce that it would be great! At the moment I’m not aware of any bugs in the test detection logic. Well, I’m not sure if it was a bug or not - since there didn’t seem to be any…

[image] Ken_Williams: sometimes the server seems to get out of sync with the code being tested, and things need to be torn down & rebuilt to get fixed. There is one known problem where we can get out of sync (namely updates to project or manifest files, I have a branch where that is fixed, bu…

[image] Ken_Williams: It might be a moot point until the initialization stuff is ironed out more. But what I meant was that since the mechanism for initialization code (@testsetup) is to put code in a module, any using statements in that module won’t transitively export their symbols to the test…

How does the Testing pane work?

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How does the Testing pane work?

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