Stream: helpdesk (published)

Topic: Test + Revise?

Fons van der Plas (Mar 24 2025 at 13:32):

Hi! Currently I am tweaking a toplevel function in my package, and after every change I run pkg> test Example in my terminal, recompiling Example.

Can I use Revise together with testing, to avoid recompiling Example every time I run the tests?

Mason Protter (Mar 24 2025 at 13:38):

The way I typically do this is I make a testsuite.jl file that contains

#testsuite.jl

using MyPackage
using SomeOtherPackage

function test_fobulation(; some_param=10)
    @testset "Fobulation test" begin
        @test is_fobulated(fobulate(1.0; some_param))
    end
end

and then my runtests.jl file is just

#runtests.jl
include("test_suite.jl")
test_fobulation()

Mason Protter (Mar 24 2025 at 13:40):

Then, if I want to interactively run tests while I tinker with Revise, I just do

julia> includet("test/test_suite.jl")

in my REPL, and

julia> test_fobulation(; some_param=11)

or whatever to re-run tests without having to recompile the whole module

Last updated: Apr 25 2025 at 04:43 UTC