Is there a way to have a single suite that will run tests in sub packages?

[tzvatot]

We want to have the following structure:

- main_test.go
-  a
   -  a_test.go
-  b
   -  b_test.go

Where main_test.go contains the main entry point of the test suite, and the 2 sub packages a and b contains the actual tests.
Is that something we can achieve with ginkgo or is there a limitation with golang test framework/ginkgo in achieving this?

Currently when running this structure, anything inside a_test_.go and b_test.go are not invoked.

[onsi]

yes this can be done and some projects (e.g. kubernetes) organize their tests in this way. The trick is to define your specs within the a and b packages:

- main_test.go
- a
    - a.go //drop _test
- b
    - b.go //drop _test

these tests can then be imported in main_test.go:

import (
    _ “project/path/to/a”
    _ “project/path/to/b“
)

func TestMainTest(t *testing.T) {
    …
    RunSpecs(t, “Main Test”)
}

any Ginkgo DSL commands in a and b will be invoked and added to the testing tree in main and run.

[onsi]

FWIW I personally don’t usually write tests this way and just give each package its own test suite and run ginkgo -r. But there are certainly cases on big projects where it makes sense to organize things this way.