How to run go test on all test files in my project except for vendor packages

Question

My project folder contains:

Makefile  README.md  component/  driver/  service/  vendor/  worker/

I\'d like to run go test on a

Answer 1

cmd/go: exclude vendor dir from matching ... #19090

[go] cmd/go: exclude vendored packages from ... matches

By overwhelming popular demand, exclude vendored packages from ... matches,
by making ... never match the "vendor" element above a vendored package.

go help packages now reads:

    An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards,
    each of which can match any string, including the empty string and
    strings containing slashes.  Such a pattern expands to all package
    directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the
    patterns.

    To make common patterns more convenient, there are two special cases.
    First, /... at the end of the pattern can match an empty string,
    so that net/... matches both net and packages in its subdirectories, like net/http.
    Second, any slash-separted pattern element containing a wildcard never
    participates in a match of the "vendor" element in the path of a vendored
    package, so that ./... does not match packages in subdirectories of
    ./vendor or ./mycode/vendor, but ./vendor/... and ./mycode/vendor/... do.
    Note, however, that a directory named vendor that itself contains code
    is not a vendored package: cmd/vendor would be a command named vendor,
    and the pattern cmd/... matches it.

Fixes #19090.

go / go / fa1d54c2edad607866445577fe4949fbe55166e1

commit    fa1d54c2edad607866445577fe4949fbe55166e1
Wed Mar 29 18:51:44 2017 +0000

Try running go test ./... at tip or wait for Go1.9.

Answer 2

The -run pattern is matched only against the test identifier (not the filename); in principle you could do:

go test -run TestFoo

but when you'd have to add Foo to all your test function names, which you probably don't want.

The ... wildcard excludes the ./vendor directory since Go 1.9, so you can now just run go test ./... and it won't include ./vendor.