lambdaisland/kaocha

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Full featured next gen Clojure test runner

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Forks: 81
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 41

Dominant language: Clojure
License: EPL-1.0
Last GitHub push: Oct 9, 2025
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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41 open issues indexed

Can't find kaocha.runner ? fails to run tests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#468 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Add these examples from Clojureverse Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#467 · Opened Apr 13, 2026
Decouple reporting from clojure.test Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#466 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 17, 2025
`kaocha.repl/run` auto-loads :test-paths, but not :source-paths Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#459 · Opened May 21, 2025
Kaocha 1.73.1175 stripping metadata? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#458 · Opened May 7, 2025
Feature: Test suite partitioning Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#449 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 17, 2024
Bypassing capture-output has unexpected behavior when running in REPL Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#446 · Opened Sep 13, 2024
Could we store the test result in the results that are passed to the post-summary hook? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#431 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 7, 2024
Clearer error message when binding a non-existent variable Open

ergonomics feature low-priority

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#421 · Opened Jul 6, 2023
[enhancement] global fixtures Open

documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#409 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 14, 2023
Use colors that support both dark and light color schemes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#403 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2023
Possible bug in kaocha's output if test fails Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#374 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 22, 2022
Test selections Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#364 · Opened Nov 30, 2022
Support filtering or selecting tests by filename Open

lambdaisland/kaocha#323 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 18, 2022
Reconsider notification levels (urgency) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#320 · Opened Oct 11, 2022
Extract more of the plumbing around entry points for reuse Open

ergonomics low-priority

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#312 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 16, 2022
Better support for nested repos or linked repos Open

improvement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#305 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2022
Run tests of kaocha plugins within main kaocha CI Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#301 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 26, 2022
Exit codes are being reused Open

improvement

lambdaisland/kaocha#300 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 26, 2022
Option to silence focus-meta warning Open

ergonomics help wanted improvement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#298 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 1, 2022
Duplicated entries in config when using both #kaocha/v1 and #include Open

documentation first issue only

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#297 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2022
Change randomize? at any level Open

improvement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#272 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 1, 2022
Error on Windows as of 1.62.993 Open

bug regression

lambdaisland/kaocha#270 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 16, 2022
Document combinator-matchers Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#228 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2021
Pre-validate config Open

ergonomics onboarding

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#219 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 14, 2021
Kaocha --print-test-plan does not print valid/readable edn Open

help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#213 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 29, 2021
Interpret the "0 test" situation as a failure Open

lambdaisland/kaocha#211 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 22, 2021
#kaocha/v2 wish list Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#183 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 4, 2020
Ability to disable ::zero-assertions as fail condition Open

improvement

lambdaisland/kaocha#162 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 9, 2020
Prevent loading of namespaces that are skipped Open

improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#145 · 5 comments · Opened May 21, 2020
What companies are using Kaocha? (one person counts!) Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#113 · 21 comments · Opened Sep 27, 2019
Exception when running tests with fail-fast and watch Open

bug priority

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#107 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2019
Function spec checking should be opt-in Open

first issue only improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#104 · 8 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2019
Suggestion: Run reloaded tests first Open

improvement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#84 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Apr 15, 2019
List available reporters and validate selected reporters Open

improvement low-priority

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#82 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2019
Running tests in parallel Open

feature

lambdaisland/kaocha#81 · 2 comments · 18 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 5, 2019
Default ns-pattern "-test$" is confusing Open

ergonomics first issue only onboarding

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#60 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2019
Allow configuring skip-meta / focus-meta at the top level Open

first issue only help wanted improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#47 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2019
Add validation to defplugin Open

ergonomics improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#32 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2019
Support for test-ns-hook Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#29 · 11 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 16, 2019
Make a distinction between load errors in the test file being loaded vs. in other namespaces. Open

ergonomics improvement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

lambdaisland/kaocha#27 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 15, 2019

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