GoogleTest How to skip a test

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Using Google Test 1 6  Windows 7  Visual Studio C      How can I turn off a given test   aka how can I prevent a test from running    Is there anything I can do besides commenting out the whole test

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I prefer to do it in code      Run a specific test only   testing  GTEST FLAG filter     MyLibrary TestReading      I m testing a new feature  run something quickly     Exclude a specific test testing  GTEST FLAG filter     -MyLibrary TestWriting      The writing test is broken  so skip it   I can either comment out both lines to run all tests  uncomment out the first line to test a single feature that I m investigating working on  or uncomment the second line if a test is broken but I want to test everything else  You can also test exclude a suite of features by using wildcards and writing a list   MyLibrary TestNetwork   or  -MyLibrary TestFileSystem

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I had the same need for conditional tests  and I figured out a good workaround  I defined a macro TEST C that works like a TEST F macro  but it has a third parameter  which is a boolean expression  evaluated runtime in main cpp BEFORE the tests are started  Tests that evaluate false are not executed  The macro is ugly  but it look like    pragma once extern std  map lt std  string  std  function lt bool   gt   gt   m conditionalTests   define TEST C test fixture  test name  test condition   class test fixture     test name   ConditionClass         public       test fixture     test name   ConditionClass                   std  string name   std  string  test fixture          std  string  test name            if  m conditionalTests  NULL                 m conditionalTests   new std  map lt std  string  std  function lt bool   gt   gt                         m conditionalTests- gt insert std  make pair name                               DeviceInfo device   Connection  Instance  - gt GetDeviceInfo                 return test condition                          test fixture     test name   ConditionInstance   TEST F test fixture  test name    Additionally  in your main cpp  you need this loop to exclude the tests that evaluate false      identify tests that cannot run on this device std  string excludeTests  for  const auto amp  exclusion    m conditionalTests        bool run   exclusion second        if   run                excludeTests          exclusion first              add the exclusion list to gtest std  string str     testing  GTEST FLAG filter     testing  GTEST FLAG filter    str     -    excludeTests      run all tests int result   RUN ALL TESTS

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Here s the expression to include tests whose names have the strings foo1 or foo2 in them and exclude tests whose names have the strings bar1 or bar2 in them   --gtest filter  foo1   foo2 - bar1   bar2

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For another approach  you can wrap your tests in a function and use normal conditional checks at runtime to only execute them if you want    include  lt gtest gtest h gt   const bool skip some test   true   bool some test was run   false   void someTest        EXPECT TRUE  skip some test      some test was run   true     TEST BasicTest  Sanity       EXPECT EQ 1  1      if  skip some test          someTest          EXPECT TRUE some test was run            This is useful for me as I m trying to run some tests only when a system supports dual stack IPv6   Technically that dualstack stuff shouldn t really be a unit test as it depends on the system  But I can t really make any integration tests until I have tested they work anyway and this ensures that it won t report failures when it s not the codes fault   As for the test of it I have stub objects that simulate a system s support for dualstack  or lack of  by constructing fake sockets   The only downside is that the test output and the number of tests will change which could cause issues with something that monitors the number of successful tests   You can also use ASSERT   rather than EQUAL    Assert will about the rest of the test if it fails  Prevents a lot of redundant stuff being dumped to the console

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If more than one test are needed be skipped  --gtest filter -TestName   TestName  TestCase

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The docs for Google Test 1 7 suggest   quot If you have a broken test that you cannot fix right away  you can add the DISABLED  prefix to its name  This will exclude it from execution  quot  Examples     Tests that Foo does Abc  TEST FooTest  DISABLED DoesAbc           class DISABLED BarTest   public   testing  Test              Tests that Bar does Xyz  TEST F DISABLED BarTest  DoesXyz

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You can also run a subset of tests  according to the documentation  Running a Subset of the Tests  By default  a Google Test program runs all tests the user has defined  Sometimes  you want to run only a subset of the tests  e g  for debugging or quickly verifying a change   If you set the GTEST FILTER environment variable or the --gtest filter flag to a filter string  Google Test will only run the tests whose full names  in the form of TestCaseName TestName  match the filter  The format of a filter is a    -separated list of wildcard patterns  called the positive patterns  optionally followed by a  -  and another    -separated pattern list  called the negative patterns   A test matches the filter if and only if it matches any of the positive patterns but does not match any of the negative patterns  A pattern may contain      matches any string  or      matches any single character   For convenience  the filter   -NegativePatterns  can be also written as  -NegativePatterns   For example    foo test Has no flag  and thus runs all its tests    foo test --gtest filter   Also runs everything  due to the single match-everything   value    foo test --gtest filter FooTest   Runs everything in test case FooTest    foo test --gtest filter  Null   Constructor  Runs any test whose full name contains either  quot Null quot  or  quot Constructor quot     foo test --gtest filter - DeathTest   Runs all non-death tests    foo test --gtest filter FooTest  -FooTest Bar Runs everything in test case FooTest except FooTest Bar     Not the prettiest solution  but it works

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You can now use the GTEST SKIP   macro to conditionally skip a test at runtime  For example   TEST Foo  Bar        if  blah          GTEST SKIP                 Note that this is a very recent feature so you may need to update your GoogleTest library to use it

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