hello, I'm fairly new to Kotlin and I'm working on...

# announcements

[Luciano]

hello, I'm fairly new to Kotlin and I'm working on a Kotlin project that uses Gradle. When running a simple Kotlin Unit test, Intellij Idea runs the gradle test task rather then executing the test directly (like in a Java project). Is there a way to run the test directly in Intellij?

[Rob Elliot]

Yes, you can change the default at
Preferences | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Gradle

[Rob Elliot]

Run tests using:

[Luciano]

Thanks! fixed

[Luciano]

my google-fu failed me this time

[Luciano]

one more question: if I run the same test twice - now using the settings you suggested, intellij seems to rebuild the current project every time, which takes some time. Any way to speed this up?

[Rajkumar Singh]

Ctrl-F5 (rerun) instead of run, from inside the run tool window. it should not build if there were no changes made since the last run.