[go-nuts] Massive go test gotcha - it runs each package in parallel

2016-08-12 Thread Steven Hartland
We've just been caught out by what I'd say is a massive gotcha about go test! When invoked with multiple packages the tests for said packages run in parallel! While this is fine if the tests themselves are totally self contained, with no external dependencies, if they do well all bets are of

Re: [go-nuts] Massive go test gotcha - it runs each package in parallel

2016-08-12 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> While running tests in parallel is not a bad thing, and likely speeds up the > testing process, it REALLY should be documented that multiple package tests > will be run at the same time. I agree that it's somewhat obscured as the documentation for the flag is shared among many subcommands, but i