# Passing parameters to \`test\`

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-parameters-to-test/16314
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** testing
**Created:** [October 14, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-parameters-to-test/16314 "2018-10-14T18:27:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![gdkrmr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gdkrmr/32/2791_2.png) [@gdkrmr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gdkrmr)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-parameters-to-test/16314/1 "2018-10-14T18:27:39Z")

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Is it possible to pass a parameter to tests? Something like:

```julia
(v1.0) pkg> test MyPackage TYPE=LONG_TEST

```

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### Author: ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-parameters-to-test/16314/2 "2018-10-14T18:45:04Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/518](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/issues/518)

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### Author: ![djsegal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/djsegal/32/13752_2.png) [@djsegal](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/djsegal)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-parameters-to-test/16314/3 "2018-10-14T18:59:58Z")

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Also, might be kind of useful to check out this old post:

> [@Standard ways to run common commands](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standard-ways-to-run-common-commands/154):
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> Over the course of developing a project, there are certain commands that get executed all the time. These include running: Tests Subsets of tests The application’s main function How can we introduce standard ways to perform these functions? Also, a standard way to run functions would give: people a nice list of hooks to plug their initialization code. a way to warn people that their packages don’t meet REQUIRE specifications and other stuff

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### Author: ![gdkrmr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gdkrmr/32/2791_2.png) [@gdkrmr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gdkrmr)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/passing-parameters-to-test/16314/4 "2018-10-15T09:24:48Z")

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Thanks, this would be very useful feature for projects where the tests run longer than a few seconds!