Commit 8086e7c6 authored by Rob Pike's avatar Rob Pike

testing: improve the documentation for the -run flag

It's not intuitive, especially in the presence of subtests, so improve the
explanation and extend and explain the examples.

Change-Id: I6c4d3f8944b60b12311d0c0f0a8e952e7c35a9ed
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/28995Reviewed-by: default avatarAndrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
parent 9e876861
......@@ -137,13 +137,17 @@
// of the top-level test and the sequence of names passed to Run, separated by
// slashes, with an optional trailing sequence number for disambiguation.
//
// The argument to the -run and -bench command-line flags is a slash-separated
// list of regular expressions that match each name element in turn.
// For example:
//
// go test -run Foo # Run top-level tests matching "Foo".
// go test -run Foo/A= # Run subtests of Foo matching "A=".
// go test -run /A=1 # Run all subtests of a top-level test matching "A=1".
// The argument to the -run and -bench command-line flags is an unanchored regular
// expression that matches the test's name. For tests with multiple slash-separated
// elements, such as subtests, the argument is itself slash-separated, with
// expressions matching each name element in turn. Because it is unanchored, an
// empty expression matches any string.
// For example, using "matching" to mean "whose name contains":
//
// go test -run '' # Run all tests.
// go test -run Foo # Run top-level tests matching "Foo", such as "TestFooBar".
// go test -run Foo/A= # For top-level tests matching "Foo", run subtests matching "A=".
// go test -run /A=1 # For all top-level tests, run subtests matching "A=1".
//
// Subtests can also be used to control parallelism. A parent test will only
// complete once all of its subtests complete. In this example, all tests are
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