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Run tests

Quick way

If your tests don't require any specific actions before start, and you don't want to configure additional options, you can run them by using the following options:

  • Place the caret at the test file to run all tests in that file, or at the test method, and press Control+Shift+F10. Alternatively, click the App client expui run run gutter icon next to the test method.

    The gutter icon changes depending on the state of your test:

    • The App client expui actions run all gutter icon marks new tests.

    • The App client expui gutter run success gutter icon marks successful tests.

    • The App client expui gutter run error gutter icon marks failed tests.

  • To run all tests in a folder, select this folder in the Project tool window and press Control+Shift+F10 or select Run Tests in 'folder' from the context menu.

    Running a test using the gutter icon

Customizable way

When you run a test, GoLand creates a temporary run configuration. You can save temporary run configurations, change their settings, share them with other members of your team. For more information, refer to Run/debug configurations.

  1. Create a new run configuration or save a temporary one.

  2. Use the configuration switcher on the main toolbar to select the configuration you want to run.

  3. Click App client expui run run or press Shift+F10.

    Running a run/debug configuration for tests

After GoLand finishes running your tests, it shows the results in the Run tool window on the Test Runner tab. For more information about analyzing test results, refer to Explore test results.

Running all tests in a folder, stopping, and rerunning a single test

Run tests with test flags

You can run tests with test flags like -race, -failfast, -short, and others. Check other flags in the Go documentation at pkg.go.dev.

  1. Navigate to Run | Edit Configurations.

  2. Click the run/debug configuration that you use to run your application or your tests. In the Go tool arguments field, specify a flag that you plan to use:

    • -race: enables data race detection. Supported only on linux/amd64, freebsd/amd64, darwin/amd64, windows/amd64, linux/ppc64le and linux/arm64 (only for 48-bit VMA).

    • -test.failfast: stops new tests after the first test failure.

    • -test.short: shortens run time of long-running tests.

    • -test.benchmem: prints memory allocation statistics for benchmarks.

    Run tests with test flags

Fuzz testing

Fuzz testing is a way to automate your tests by continuously submitting various input. The input is generated according to the sample data that you provided in f.Add("mySampleData").

The f.Add() which accepts the following data types: string, []byte, rune, int, int8, int16, int32, int64, uint, uint8, unit16, uint32, uint64, float32, float64, bool.

Running fuzz testing

  • Click the gutter Run Test icon, select Run, and then select the fuzz testing configuration (for example, go test -fuzz FuzzTest).

    If the testing fails, you can click the link to the testdata directory to see what input has failed the test.

    To run go test with the failing seed corpus entry, open the file from the testdata directory, click the Run Fuzzing icon in the gutter, and select the necessary configuration.

    Running fuzz testing

Debugging fuzz tests

  1. Create a breakpoint by clicking the gutter on the necessary line.

    Alternatively, click the line where you want to create a breakpoint and press Control+F8.

  2. Click Run | Debug.

  3. In the Debug popup window, select the desired run/debug configuration.

Run tests after commit

When you want to check that your changes wouldn't break the code before pushing them, you can do that by running tests as commit checks.

Set up test configuration

  1. Open the Commit tool window as described in the following topics:

  2. Click Show Commit Options the Settings button. In the menu, click Choose configuration near Run Tests and select which configuration you want to run.

    Pre-commit checks menu

After you have set up the test configuration, the specified tests will run every time you make a commit.

Stop tests

Use the following options on the Run toolbar of the Test Runner tab:

  • Click the Stop button or press Control+F2 to terminate the process immediately.

Stop running tests

Rerun tests

Rerun a single test

  • Right-click a test on the Test Runner tab of the Run tool window and select Run 'test name'.

Rerun all tests in a session

  • Click the Rerun button on the Run toolbar or press Control+F5 to rerun all tests in a session.

Rerun failed tests

  • Click App client expui run restart failed tests on the Run toolbar to rerun only failed tests.

    Hold Shift and click App client expui run restart failed tests to choose whether you want to Run the tests again or Debug them.

    You can configure the IDE to trigger tests that were ignored or not started during the previous test run together with failed tests. Click the Settings button on the Test Runner toolbar and enable the Include Non-Started Tests into Rerun Failed option.

Rerun tests automatically

In GoLand, you can enable the autotest-like runner: any test in the current run configuration restarts automatically after you change the related source code.

  • Click Rerun Automatically Rerun Automatically on the Run toolbar to enable the autotest-like runner.

Debug failed tests

If you don't know why a test fails, you can debug it.

  1. In the editor, click the gutter on the line where you want to set a breakpoint.

    There are different types of breakpoints that you can use depending on where you want to suspend the program. For more information, refer to Breakpoints.

  2. Right-click the App client expui gutter run error gutter icon next to the failed test and select Debug 'test name'.

    The test will rerun in debug mode. After that, the test will be suspended, allowing you to examine its current state.

    You can step through the test to analyze its execution in detail.

    Debugging a test using the gutter icon

Productivity tips

Run individual table tests

  • You can run individual table tests by using the Run icon (the Run icon) in the gutter. Also, you can navigate to an individual table test from the Run tool window.

    Current support of table tests has following limitations:

    • The test data variable must be a slice, an array, or a map. It must be defined in the same function as the t.Run call and must not be used after initialization (except for the range clause in the for loop).

    • The individual test data entry must be a struct literal. Loop variables used in a subtest name expression must not be used before the t.Run call.

    • A subtest name expression can be test data string field, a concatenation of test data string fields, or a fmt.Sprintf() call with %s and %d verbs.

      For example, in the following code snippet, fmt.Sprintf("%s in %s", tc.gmt, tc.loc) is a subtest name expression.

      for _, tc := range testCases { t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s in %s", tc.gmt, tc.loc), func(t *testing.T) { loc, err := time.LoadLocation(tc.loc) if err != nil { t.Fatal("could not load location") } gmt, _ := time.Parse("15:04", tc.gmt) if got := gmt.In(loc).Format("15:04"); got != tc.want { t.Errorf("got %s; want %s", got, tc.want) } }) }
    Run individual table tests
Last modified: 11 January 2024