Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Morgan,

>> Are you trying to selectively run tests so we can debug tests one at a time?
>> That is already entirely doable with the current setup.  Running 'make check
>> TESTS=get-status' only runs a singular test.
>
> This is exactly what is called SELECTOR in the Emacs make. And this is
> the same name used in the ERT manual.
>
> I said already in my last message that this is missing, and I will add this.
>
>> The patch you have provided actually removes the ability to run one test at a
>> time as we'd have to run entire files.
>
> No, with adding SELECTOR to the Makefile we'll have it. Read test/README
> from the Emacs source tree for a better understanding how Emacs does it.
>
> Disclaimer: I have written a large part of that README.
>
>> I'm not certain what the SELECTORs do but perhaps you're thinking that
>> in the future we would have groups of tests (like "expensive" or
>> "network") that we could select.  In the interest of not
>> over-engineering on hypotheticals, I would say that is a future problem.
>> One that I would likely solve by putting those test files in
>> sub-directories labeled "expensive" and "network".
>
> A SELECTOR can be anything. A regexp, a test name a tag, you name it.
> See (info "(ert) Test Selectors")

I have extended the Makefile to support also SELECTOR, see
appended. Comments?

Best regards, Michael.