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It's common to run only one test for development purposes. The way to specify tests to run is to pass them as arguments to QTest. The following example would run only testFoo from tst_something:

./tst_something testFoo

The test can be passed with TESTARGS variable.

cd subtestdir/
make check TESTARGS="testFoo"

Of course, this is not working properly if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is required, such that QMakeTestRunner is required. There are couple of issues

First, the variable TESTARGS is not forwarded to the underlying check command, and then it's not possible to run only one test.

Also, when specifying TESTARGS at top-level, every tests are called with the same arguments, and since testFoo may be defined in only one test class, it fails to find the test function.

Then, while make check works in subproject, make test target is undefined:

cd mysubtestdir/
make test TESTARGS="testFoo"
make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.

One solution would be to create a test-shell target that spawns a shell with correct environment, then the dev could run individual test under subdirectory or with make check. (a bit like virtualenv does, or the django shell).

This solution won't fit well under qtcreator. Could it be possible de define variables such that CTRL-R would run only one test under QMakeTestRunner?