rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Feature Request: In the VS Code Test Explorer, copy the test ID of a test
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Description
In the Test Explorer in VS Code, it'd be super handy if you could right-click on a test, then copy the test ID of a specific test (or file, or folder, or any level) to run in a different terminal.
This feature exists in Python with pytest in the VS Code test explorer, and is very handy.
The idea is that you'd right-click on a test, copy its test id, and then you can run cargo test -- paste_the_test_id_here in a new terminal.
A common use case where I'd find this handy is that I often want to run RUST_BACKTRACE=full cargo test --release -- paste_the_test_id_here when a specific test is failing/panicking.
I'm not sure how this would integrate with other IDEs, but I assume it'd be pretty similar. This feature request is currently primarily for VS Code though.
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Research direction
Start at the rust-analyzer VS Code Test Explorer integration and trace how a selected test, file, or folder is represented for execution. Compare the requested context-menu action with the existing cargo test -- <test ID> flow; done means each supported tree level exposes a copy-ID action whose value can be pasted into the command.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, testing-qa
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100