How to show started-events for tests?

[tony19]

It seems the plugin only prints the result of a test after it has completed. Is there a way to include the start event in the output? This is possible outside of gradle-test-logger-plugin with:

tasks.withType(Test) {
    testLogging {
        events "started"
    }
}

but this config doesn't have an effect with the plugin. What are my options?

[radarsh]

Unfortunately the plugin needs to know the test result before printing the logs in order to apply filtering. Before the filtering logic was implemented, the plugin used to print it.

What exactly is your scenario? Why do you need the started events? In fact, Gradle already displays which test is being run in its progress indicator.

[tony19]

Some of my test suites have hanging tests, and the default Gradle output you mentioned only indicates the classname of the test suite (and not the test name itself).

[radarsh]

I might be able to do something about this by leveraging Gradle's progress logging. Unless there is a lot of demand for this feature, I would like to push back on it as Gradle progress logging is an internal API.

[pingerino]

Is it possible to disable filtering completely and get output immediately in builds? We're having similar issues where it's very hard in jenkins output to see which test has hung.

[ewatbwat]

I would love this feature. Googling "gradle show when test starts" is exactly what led me to find your plugin, actually, even though it doesn't do that. :)

This plugin is beautiful! But it won't help me figure out which test is hanging, so I'll hack my own gradle stuff for now.

[Alex-Vol-Amz]

Instead of the plugin doing the work to identify hanging tests as an observer (harder to know) using the test framework facilities might be a better option. Most test frameworks support the notion of test timeouts, the timeouts usually have a matching exception thrown by the framework with the hanging test name or other useful metadata.