How to rostest a single (entire) package in catkin workspace?

asked 2014-11-03 17:49:45 -0500

dsolomon
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(I believe related to http://answers.ros.org/question/62583... )

I have found through painful trial-and-error that when rostests are defined in a package's CMakeLists.txt, they will not build with the typical catkin_make run_tests_<package>:

catkin_make run_tests WORKS
catkin_make run_tests_<package> DOESN'T WORK

It is quite painful to not have the ability to run rostests from only one package at a time. Is this expected behavior, and can anyone explain why?

hydro on 12.04

answered 2014-11-03 18:01:58 -0500

ahendrix

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updated 2014-11-03 18:02:35 -0500

Are you referring to the compilation of your test executables, or the running of those tests? The build process separates these things into two separate build steps, with associated build targets.

The relevant build targets:

tests: Builds all of the test nodes. Does not run them.
run_tests_<package>: Runs the tests for a specific package. Does not build them.
run_tests: Depends on the tests target and all of the run_tests_<package> targets in the current workspace. Building this target causes all of the tests to be built and run.

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Also: be sure that CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING is defined when building your workspace. Properly written CMakeLists.txt should not setup any test-related targets if CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING is not defined. A normal catkin_make invocation should have that defined, but I thought I'd mention it.

gvdhoorn ( 2014-11-04 08:54:16 -0500 )edit

Don't know why I just saw this, but thanks guys! Is this behavior from cmake or catkin? And is there a any human-readable source for this information? Reading cmake documentation feels like reading the Rosetta stone: it only makes sense after you already figured it out.