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gotip

Go Test Interactive Picker

About

gotip is a TUI application for interactively selecting and running Go tests.

Key features:

• Fuzzy filtering of test cases
• Detection of subtest names defined via table-driven tests (partial support)
• Run individual subtests or grouped subtests

Installation

go install github.com/lusingander/gotip/cmd/gotip@latest

Usage

Basic usage

In a directory containing a go.mod file, run:

gotip

While a test is selected, press Enter to run it using go test.

Passing additional arguments

You can pass extra flags directly to go test by appending them after --:

gotip -- -v -count=1

Running a parent test group

While a test is selected, press Backspace to move up to its parent test group.

This allows you to execute all subtests under that group.
For example, if you have TestFoo/Bar/Baz selected, pressing Backspace will select TestFoo/Bar, and running it will execute all tests under that prefix.

If subtest names could not be automatically discovered, gotip defaults to selecting the nearest available parent test.

Config

You can configure gotip by placing a gotip.toml file in the current directory.

The format is as follows:

# Specifies the command used to run tests.
# If omitted, the default command is used.
# type: list of strings
command = []

command

The command field allows you to customize how tests are executed.

You can use this to always pass specific flags or use an external test runner instead of the default.

For example, to use gotestsum, you can configure it like this:

command = ["gotestsum", "--format", "testname", "--", "-run", "${name}", "${package}"]

${name} and ${package} are placeholders that will be replaced at runtime with the selected test name pattern and package name, respectively.

If not specified, the following default command is used:

command = ["go", "test", "-run", "${name}", "${package}"]

Keybindings

Key	Description
Ctrl-c	Quit
j ↓	Select next item
k ↑	Select previous item
l →	Select next page
h ←	Select previous page
Enter	Run the selected test
Backspace	Select parent test group
/	Enter filtering mode
Enter	Confirm filter (in filtering mode)
Esc	Clear filtering mode
Ctrl-x	Toggle filtering type

Planned features

• Persistent test execution history with ability to re-run from history
• Launch with initial filter based on package or test name
• Custom keybindings

License

MIT