Specifying Tests or Directories With tests

You can specify one or more individual tests or directories of tests for the harness to run. The harness walks the test tree starting with the sub-branches or tests you specify (or both) and executes all tests that it finds, excluding tests that are filtered out.

You can use the tests command to specify one or more individual tests or directories of tests:

tests path/filename

See Command-Line Overview for a description of the command line structure.

When creating a command string, include the commands in the following sequence:

  1. Include the commands required to set up a configuration.

See Setup Commands for detailed description of the available commands.

  1. Include the commands required to specify tests or directories of tests (tests path/filename).
  2. (Optional) Include a task command such as the runtests command.

See Task Commands for a description of the available commands.

Example of tests Command

In the following example, path/filename represents a file name that might exist on your system.

Command Options Format Example:

> jtharness ... [initial-setup-commands] ... -tests path/filename ... [task-command] ...

See Formatting a Command for descriptions and examples of other command formats that you can use.

See About the Command-Line Examples for a description of the use of > jtharness in the example.


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