Re: [Boost-users] [test] How do run a specific test suite?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [test] How do run a specific test suite?
From: Ahmed Badran (ahmed.badran_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-06 16:59:45

Ahmed Badran wrote:
> Christian Henning wrote:
>> Hi there, I believe I once read that one can specify test suite to be
>> run as a command line parameter. By default all test suites are
>> running, but, the user should be able to specify one in the case there
>> are several suites.
> 
> Excellent point.
> 
>>
>> I've tried to look up that information inside the boost::test
>> documentation but couldn't find it. Am I wrong that such functionality
>> exists?
>>
> 
> afaik, this functionality doesn't exist however you can do command line 
> globbing:
> 
> ./my_unit_tests.exe --run_test=test_feature*
> 

Actually thinking more about it and looking again at the documentation, 
you can use the globbing and "/" to pick particular test cases/test suites

You can do:
./my_unit_tests.exe --run_test=test_suite_1/*

hope this is useful.

Regards,
Ahmed