# Standard ways to run common commands

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standard-ways-to-run-common-commands/154
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Created:** [November 7, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standard-ways-to-run-common-commands/154 "2016-11-07T06:38:00Z")
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Are there plans to make Julia’s test infrastructure closer in feel to other languages?

Maybe @testset would benefit from some flags, including:

- `focus: true` // only run this test
- `skip: true` // skip this test
- `speed: slow` // allow skipping these tests
- `type: solver` // similar to `speed` but w/ file type

_// note: these were just picked up off a quick scrub of [rspec’s docs](https://www.relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-core/v/2-4/docs/command-line/tag-option)_

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**edit:** maybe allow timeout setting also ([see this post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-way-to-make-testsets-fail-after-n-seconds/3424))

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