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How to count the number of running tests for a go project
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golang-test-count.sh
go test ./... -v | grep -c RUN
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Wonderful.

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Note that this will count tests as well as subtests. This is essentially double counting if your all your regular tests do is spin off subtests.

(commenting, because this is the top google result for "golang number of tests")

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Note that this will count tests as well as subtests. This is essentially double counting if your all your regular tests do is spin off subtests.

(commenting, because this is the top google result for "golang number of tests")

That's a good point. I think that at when I posted this, I was still using Go 1.6. I'd probably use something like python to parse the subtest output.

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