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Wilfred Hughes

Jan 19, 2017 at 19:03

Go is exploring a smart test runner which only re-runs tests that depend on changed code: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11193 (rare in other languages!)

cmd/go: cache test results in go test · Issue #11193 · golang/go

cmd/go: cache test results in go test · Issue #11193 · golang/go

It would be nice to have a mode for go test that cached test results, so that you could change a package and then do 'go test ...' and have it only actually rerun the tests that depend on that pack...