Is there a way in Kotest to show which tests / spe...

# kotest

[Sebastian Schuberth]

Is there a way in Kotest to show which tests / specs of a given tag would be run (i.e. the code under test was changed) without actually running the tests yet? I was hoping that something like ./gradlew funTest -Dkotest.tags=Docker --dry-run would give a clue, but that just shows all tasks as skipped.

[sam]

I wasn't aware of the dry-run tag on gradle

[sam]

It must pass that flag to the tests somehow and so kotest would have to honour it

[sam]

https://github.com/kotest/kotest/issues/3467

[Emil Kantis]

Does this work with Junit?

[christophsturm]

isnt the dry run flag just for gradle tasks?

[christophsturm]

there is no way kotest (or failgood) can support that because the tasks do not run at all

[sam]

Ahh I see. So @Sebastian Schuberth wants the task to interpret it show the tests that would run. But if gradle isn't invoking the task, there's nothing we can do.

[christophsturm]

right. it would need to be a different option one that is not handled by gradle and passed to kotest

[christophsturm]

or maybe an env var DRY_RUN=true ./gradlew test

[Emil Kantis]

With a more fleshed out gradle plugin, we could generate a dry-run task for Kotest

[Sebastian Schuberth]

@sam is right, sorry for any confusion my example might have caused.