I did a little more experimentation, and it looks like this is definitely the case on Go 1.7.3 on OSX:
With this file system layout: $ tree . ├── package1 │ └── package1_test.go └── package2 └── package2_test.go 2 directories, 2 files And this test (and a similar test in package2_test.go that sleeps for 2 seconds) $ cat package1/package1_test.go package package1 import ( "log" "testing" "time" ) func TestPackage1(t *testing.T) { log.Printf("TestPackage1 sleeping") time.Sleep(time.Second * 10) log.Printf("/TestPackage1 sleeping") } I'm getting this output: $ go test -v ./... === RUN TestPackage1 2017/10/16 15:37:21 TestPackage1 sleeping 2017/10/16 15:37:31 /TestPackage1 sleeping --- PASS: TestPackage1 (10.00s) PASS ok github.com/tleyden/go-tests-parallel/package1 10.007s === RUN TestPackage2 2017/10/16 15:37:21 TestPackage2 sleeping 2017/10/16 15:37:23 /TestPackage2 sleeping --- PASS: TestPackage2 (2.00s) PASS ok github.com/tleyden/go-tests-parallel/package2 2.010s I was expecting that TestPackage2 would start after TestPackage1 and all tests in package1 completed. I tried adding "-parallel 1" to the args, but it didn't make any difference. Is there any way to serialize the execution of tests when using "..." to expand packages? On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 3:21:49 PM UTC-7, Traun Leyden wrote: > > > If tests are run via: > > go test -v github.com/org/repo/... > > will there be any additional parallelism compared to running: > > go test -v github.com/org/repo/package1 > go test -v github.com/org/repo/package2 > > ? > > I'm asking because I'm seeing cases in the log output where the timestamp > on later test appears earlier than timestamp on previous test in another > package: > > --- PASS: TestInPackage1 (1.31s) > 2017-10-16 14:57:54.351853 .... > PASS > ok github.com/org/repo/package1 174.584s > > === RUN TestInPackage2 > 2017-10-16T14:55:00.824-07:00 .... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.