Provide runtime options for positively or negatively selecting tests or suites

[nemequ]

Provide runtime options for positively or negatively selecting tests or suites

[nemequ]

An easier approach might be simply to do a start-of-string anchored string match between the test name provided on the command line and the existing test names.

µnit already does that. If you're careful about how you structure your tests it's pretty handy, but sometimes a way to specify exclusions would be pretty useful too.

[austinbes]

Now that I think about this a little more, using * has the potential for confusing and undesirable behavior, since it'll be subject to expansion by the shell. I'm not sure what the right syntactical solution is, then...

[freeekanayaka]

I don't care much about which syntax would be used, but this feature would definitely benefit me too (re gauging the interest level).

[61131]

An easier approach might be simply to do a start-of-string anchored string match between the test name provided on the command line and the existing test names. This would provide for some specificity in (the multiple of) tests to be executed without potentially be caught by shell expansion.

[austinbes]

µnit already does that. If you're careful about how you structure your tests it's pretty handy, but sometimes a way to specify exclusions would be pretty useful too.

I just realized this the other day. Closing this issue since the existing feature meets 90% of my use-cases, but if there's serious interest in an exclusion pattern throw some comments down and I'll think about reopening and implementing that.