Support --test parameter in gradle nativeTest target

[cschuyle]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'd like to be able to run only certain tests from the gradle nativeTest target, in the same way as gradle test --tests 'testPattern' (gradle test filtering) works.

Please make sure that you are using the latest plugin version, and that similar feature hasn't been requested before.

native-build-tools version 0.9.23
gradle versions tried:

• 8.2.1
• 7.6

Describe the solution you'd like

When executing the gradle nativeTest target --tests PATTERN, the test runner should run only tests whose method name matches PATTERN, following the same specification as the gradle test target does as documented in the Gradle Test Filtering docs:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_testing.html#test_filtering

Describe alternatives you've considered
I've resorted to commenting-out the unwanted tests.

Note that I have successfully configured the test filter in build.gradle. The following works fine, and only runs the TestClass.testMethod test:

test {
    filter {
        //include specific method in any of the tests
        includeTestsMatching "*TestClass.testMethod"
    }
}

I'm logging this issue because it'd be convenient for the command line option to work as well.

Additional context
none

[visomar]

Is this feature request being planned? I've been finding myself recently in the need of running specific native tests, and as @cschuyle mentioned, it's either by commenting out the rest of the tests (which in my case is now not viable anymore due to the amount of test classes) or by configuring SourceSets in my config files as stated here.

[melix]

Unless I'm forgetting about an implementation detail, running a single test should work if you invoke both test and nativeTest, e.g:

./gradlew test --tests .... nativeTest

That's because internally we need to run the JVM tests before running the native ones (see #765).

[visomar]

Particularly in my case, when I run this:

./gradlew :my-module:test --tests "MyTest" nativeTest

I'm seeing only the tests I filtered in --tests being run first, but then the task nativeTest tries to run those same tests... but also the ones from submodules that my-module depends on.

I needed to do this:

./gradlew :my-module:test --tests "MyTest" :my-module:nativeTest

in order to run exclusively the ones I wanted to filter.

Thanks for your answer, @melix, I believe this works the way I was expecting.