Skipping based on metadata

You can limit the test run based on test's metadata. How to associate metadata with a test depends on the test type, for clojure.test type tests metadata can be associated with a test var or test namespace.

Using the --skip-meta command line flag, or :kaocha.filter/skip-meta key in test suite configuration, you can tell Kaocha to completely ignore those tests where the given metadata key has a truthy value associated with it.

The default value for :kaocha.filter/skip-meta is [:kaocha/skip], so you can use ^:kaocha/skip to ignore tests without extra configuration.

Skipping a test based on metadata from the command line

• Given a file named "test/my/project/sample_test.clj" with:

(ns my.project.sample-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))

(deftest some-test
  (is (= 1 1)))

(deftest ^:xxx other-test
  (is (= 2 2)))

• When I run bin/kaocha --skip-meta :xxx --reporter documentation

• Then the output should contain:

--- unit (clojure.test) ---------------------------
my.project.sample-test
  some-test

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures.

Skipping a test group based on metadata from the command line

• Given a file named "test/my/project/sample_test.clj" with:

(ns my.project.sample-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))

(deftest some-test
  (is (= 1 1)))

• And a file named "test/my/project/other_sample_test.clj" with:

(ns ^:xxx my.project.other-sample-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))

(deftest other-test
  (is (= 1 1)))

• When I run bin/kaocha --skip-meta :xxx --reporter documentation

• Then the output should contain:

--- unit (clojure.test) ---------------------------
my.project.sample-test
  some-test

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures.

Skipping based on metadata via configuration

• Given a file named "tests.edn" with:

#kaocha/v1
{:tests [{:kaocha.filter/skip-meta [:xxx]}]
 :color? false
 :randomize? false}

• And a file named "test/my/project/sample_test.clj" with:

(ns my.project.sample-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))

(deftest some-test
  (is (= 1 1)))

(deftest ^:xxx other-test
  (is (= 2 2)))

(deftest ^:kaocha/skip also-skipped
  (is (= 3 3)))

• When I run bin/kaocha --reporter documentation

• Then the output should contain:

--- unit (clojure.test) ---------------------------
my.project.sample-test
  some-test

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures.

Skipping using the default :kaocha/skip metadata

• Given a file named "test/my/project/sample_test.clj" with:

(ns my.project.sample-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))

(deftest some-test
  (is (= 1 1)))

(deftest ^:kaocha/skip other-test
  (is (= 2 2)))

• When I run bin/kaocha --reporter documentation

• Then the output should contain:

--- unit (clojure.test) ---------------------------
my.project.sample-test
  some-test

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures.

Replacing skip metadata

• Given a file named "tests.edn" with:

#kaocha/v1
{:tests [{:kaocha.filter/skip-meta ^:replace [:xxx]}]
 :color? false
 :randomize? false}

• Given a file named "test/my/project/sample_test.clj" with:

(ns my.project.sample-test
  (:require [clojure.test :refer :all]))

(deftest ^:xxx some-test
  (is (= 1 1)))

(deftest ^:kaocha/skip other-test ;; this is ignored now
  (is (= 2 2)))

• When I run bin/kaocha --reporter documentation

• Then the output should contain:

--- unit (clojure.test) ---------------------------
my.project.sample-test
  other-test

1 tests, 1 assertions, 0 failures.