How do you run only a single Spec2 specification with SBT?

Question

If you have 2 tests defined in your SBT project:

class Spec1 extends Specification {
  def is =
    "Tests for specification 1" ^
      p ^
      "Test case 1" ! todo ^
      end
}

and

class Spec2 extends Specification {
  def is =
    "Tests for specification 2" ^
      p ^
      "Test case 2" ! todo ^
      end
}

Then running test from inside SBT will execute both these tests. What is the simplest way to run only one of these tests?

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

19

Use the test-only sbt command.

sbt> test-only com.example.MySpec

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

Community

answered Dec 10 '12 at 09:49

9

If you don't want to enter the `sbt` shell first, the executable expects only a single argument, so you'll have to pass the whole command in quotes. Here, `sbt "test-only com.example.MySpec"` or `sbt "test-only *MySpec"` – broadmonkey Oct 19 '15 at 15:55

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