# Test with title string
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** testing
**Created:** [October 6, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566 "2019-10-06T20:55:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@rveltz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rveltz)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566/1 "2019-10-06T20:55:47Z")
Hi,
I am doing some testing for a package and I would like to have a string attached to the test result. Right now, I have to use `@testset` with a `begin` keyword.
Is there anything like the following?
```julia
@test "Testing dummy equality" 1==0
```
Thank you for your help,
Best
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 3:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566/2 "2019-10-07T03:39:43Z")
No, as far as I can tell the `Base.Test` module does not provide any way to label individual tests except by putting them into a `@testset`.
You could, of course, write your own functions that include labels, e.g.
```julia
==ᴸ(a,b; label="") = a == b
@test 1 ==ᴸ 0 label="Testing dummy equality"
```
(Keyword arguments on the `@test` line are passed to the function call in the first expression.)
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### Author:  [@rveltz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rveltz)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 5:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566/3 "2019-10-07T05:30:52Z")
> [@stevengj](#):
>
> ==ᴸ(a,b; label=“”) = a == b @test 1 ==ᴸ 0 label=“Testing dummy equality”
Thank you but this does not print the string like @testset. I guess I am looking for a “short” `@testset`
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### Author:  [@zaki](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zaki)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 7:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566/4 "2019-10-07T07:28:50Z")
If the goal is to print the label and a pass/fail, then maybe this’ll do the trick:
```julia
function print_test(label, cond)
printstyled("$label: ", color=:normal)
if cond
printstyled("PASS", color=:green)
else
printstyled("FAIL", color=:red)
end
print("\n")
end
```
and an example usage would look like:
```julia
print_test("Testing dummy equality", 1==0)
```
However, since this doesn’t use `@test`, there won’t be any useful error messages if the test fails and it won’t be counted within a testset block.
A possible workaround is to return true/false from the `print_test()` function, then it can be called by `@test print_test(...)`. That’ll make the test count, but any error messages will still be useless probably.
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### Author:  [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566/5 "2019-10-07T07:31:45Z")
I just use lots of short testsets.
Often nested
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566/6 "2019-10-07T10:13:54Z")
> [@rveltz](#):
>
> Thank you but this does not print the string like `@testset`. I guess I am looking for a “short” `@testset`
You could define:
```julia
using Test
macro testL(label, args...)
:(@testset $label begin @test $(args...); end)
end
```
and then you can do
```julia
@testL "Test dummy equality" 1==0
```
for example.
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### Author:  [@rveltz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rveltz)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/test-with-title-string/29566/7 "2019-10-07T10:20:23Z")
Wonderfull! Thank you