Re: [Boost-users] --run_test and using this to run a subset of Testcases.

legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) writes:

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boost-users@lists.boost.org spake the secret code thusly:

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First off, is there a possibility to do a negative selection. i.e. tell boost.test to NOT run certain Testcases/testsuites?

There is only positive specification, although it does have a wildcard facility.

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Further is it possible to run sets of Testcases(which may reside in different testsuites)?

Yes, you can specify multiple sets of test cases by using commas and identify suite levels using slash like a pathname.

However, if you have your tests arranged into suites and you use a comma, things don't bind the way you'd expect because the matcher splits on slash first and then on comma. So commas don't separate completely seperate test specifications, they separate names at the same level of the test suite hierarchy.

So *that's* why I could never get that to work properly! Sounds like a bug to me. I see you've already filed a ticket: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9531. Excellent. Alex -- Swish - Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org)