Hi there, I'm developing a feature for osquery, but I cant get the whole tests suite running.

make test

runs 86 stages and take more than an hour on my laptop. Is there any way to run a limited set of tests ?

make test/fast

does not seems much quicker.

A few ways that this might go faster - rent a beefy multicore VM for compilation and keep the build directory around; this will speed up the initial compilation step. Then you could copy over (or ssh in and work directly from this source) changes that you’ve made onto the VM and test changes there. After that, use

ctest --build-nocmake -V

from the build directory directly to run all the tests and

ctest --build-nocmake -V -R <some regex for your test name (or just the actually test binary name)