Re-Running the last test in VS Code

In our workflow, developers work on the test that’s home in test/component_test.dart. The file contains a main() method and a root group, which is further split into N subgroups and tests.

In Android Studio, I am able to hover the main() function, press Control-Shift-R (I’m on a mac) and all tests in that file run. To re-run the same set of tests, a simple Control-R is needed.

This is immensely helpful to quickly iterate (until flutter testing gains things like a watcher).

However, this workflow currently seems to be impossible in VS Code. Is that a Dart-Code task (to deeply integrate with VS Code testing framework) or is it something else?

[DanTup]

Nothing missed, I think that’s a good point. We can probably have a Re-run Last Test command that works the same, but only tracks tests. I’ll take a look. Thanks!

[HerrNiklasRaab]

I some sense not having the rerun last test option destroys a bit my workflow. Example Szenario:

• You write a test
• You write a bit implementation code
• You run the test
• You write a bit implementation code
• You rerun the last debug session
• You write a bit implementation code
• You rerun the last debug session

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• Now you start the app because you want to see those changes in action
• You write a bit implementation code, because something didn’t work
• Now I would like to rerun the last test, but this is not possible, because the last debug session was starting the app.

Do I miss something here? How would this be possible with the current version?