Hi,
I am able to build Julia locally on my computer and I would eventually like to submit a PR to Julia.
But before doing so I would like to add tests and make sure that these tests work.
Can someone let me know how do I locally:
-run tests once I have built Julia ?
-run a specific julia test file which is in the folder test/ of the source code ? As i don’t want to run all tests.
Thank you
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That’s great! Just as building Julia is done with make, running all tests can be accomplished with make test. That’s quite the slog, however, and you can indeed run only a subset. If you’re only interested in running one test file (e.g., test/file.jl), you can use make -C test file.
Or you can just run using Test; include("test/file.jl"). That won’t work for all the test files, but it will for most of them.
Or you can just copy-paste the relevant test sets into your REPL.
All tests will run for all platforms upon submitting the PR.
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Thank you, I’ll test that and I will also make a PR with your permission to also document your information as I just found the make test part.
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Absolutely, great idea!
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I’d recommend using Base.runtest("file"), which optionally allows you to fix the seed (which is quite useful for reproducing stochastic errors). And that’s already documented.
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