I notice that when I m using `StringSpec` and I have a parti

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I notice that when I m using `StringSpec` and I have a particularly long test name and split it up on separate lines like this ``` Given blah blah blah blah blah blah + When blah blah blah + Then blah blah blah TODO ``` Then the test name in the Intellij run window will be truncated to just ` Then blah blah blah` To remedy I tried putting the concatenation in parens ``` Given blah blah blah blah blah blah + When blah blah blah + Then blah blah blah TODO ``` This fixed the test name displayed in the run window But the plugin no longer recognized the test I think Because it removed the single green arrow gutter icon from that test in IntelliJ Is there a workaround that avoids both problems Thanks

sam · Answer

I think we just need to flatten the name for display

sam · Answer

Which version of kotest

julian · Answer

< sam> Kotest v 4 1 1 and Intellij Kotest Plugin v 1 0 5 Thanks ``````

julian · Answer

Kotest has a lot of test styles already Would you be open to considering one more

sam · Answer

If it was sufficiently different yes

julian · Answer

Cool

julian · Answer

The idea arises from the current use case I don t think it s already covered by existing styles The motivation is this The developer doesn t want to nest tests in a tree because understanding such tests can require much visual scanning up and down through the tree of nested tests to figure out what the state of the SUT is when the test executes But the developer likes the readability of a test name only the name not the logic setup of the test that can be broken into multiple nested segments in the IDE and that also appears as mutliple segments in the IntelliJ plugin ``````

julian · Answer

I ll illustrate

sam · Answer

Can you put it in an issue

sam · Answer

On github

julian · Answer

In the IDE it looks like this ``` Given blah blah blah blah blah blah + When blah blah blah + Then blah blah blah TODO Given blah blah blah blah blah blah When blah blah blah Then shake shake shake TODO ``` Note how second test name differs only in the third line segment In the plugin it looks like this ```Given blah blah blah blah blah blah When blah blah blah Then blah blah blah Given blah blah blah blah blah blah When blah blah blah Then shake shake shake``` I imagine this would require framework to somehow know that the unique name of a test is a combination of all the names of its segments It should not think for example that two names map to the same test because the first segment of both are the same

julian · Answer

< sam> Yes I ll post on Github Thanks

julian · Answer

Done Thanks <https github com kotest kotest issues 1545>