I’ve written about using drush to evaluate PHP statements in the Drupal context using the command line before, and it turns out that Drush is also quite useful for running Simpletest scripts. Drush comes with a module that allows you to display all the available tests with “drush test list”, run all the tests with “drush test run”, or run specified tests with “drush test run test1,test2”.

‘Course, I wanted to run groups of tests and tests matching regular expressions, so I defined two new commands:

drush test run re regular-expression

Run all tests matching a regular expression that uses ereg(..) to match.

Ex: drush test run re Example.*

drush test run group group1,group2…

Run all tests matching the given groups

Ex: drush test run group Example

Here’s the patch to make it happen:

Index: drush_simpletest.module
===================================================================
--- drush_simpletest.module	(revision 884)
+++ drush_simpletest.module	(working copy)
@@ -12,9 +12,13 @@
 function drush_simpletest_help($section) {
   switch ($section) {
       case 'drush:test run':
-        return t("Usage drush [options] test run.\n\nRun the specified specified unit tests. If  is omitted, all tests are run.  should be a list of classes separated by a comma. For example: PageCreationTest,PageViewTest.");
+        return t("Usage drush [options] test run .\n\nRun the specified unit tests. If  is omitted, all tests are run.  should be a list of classes separated by a comma. For example: PageCreationTest,PageViewTest.");
       case 'drush:test list':
         return t("Usage drush [options] test list.\n\nList the available tests. Use drush test run command to run them. ");
+      case 'drush:test group':
+        return t("Usage drush [options] test group .\n\nRun all unit tests in the specified groups. For example: drush test group Group1,Group2");
+      case 'drush:test re':
+        return t("Usage drush [options] test re .\n\nRun all unit tests matching this regular expression. For example: drush test re Page.*");
   }
 }
 
@@ -30,10 +34,18 @@
     'callback' => 'drush_test_list',
     'description' => 'List the available Simpletest test classes.',
   );
+  $items['test re'] = array(
+    'callback' => 'drush_test_re',
+    'description' => 'Run one or more Simpletest tests based on regular expressions.',
+  );
+  $items['test group'] = array(
+    'callback' => 'drush_test_group',
+    'description' => 'Run one or more Simpletest test groups.',
+  );
   return $items;
 }
 
-function drush_test_list() {
+function drush_test_get_list() {
   simpletest_load();
   // TODO: Refactor simpletest.module so we don't copy code from DrupalUnitTests
   $files = array();
@@ -60,6 +72,11 @@
       $rows[] = array($class, $info['name'], truncate_utf8($info['desc'], 30, TRUE, TRUE));
     }
   }
+  return $rows;
+}
+
+function drush_test_list() {
+  $rows = drush_test_get_list();
   return drush_print_table($rows, 0, TRUE);
 }
 
@@ -75,3 +92,31 @@
   }
   return $result;
 }
+
+function drush_test_re($expression) {
+  if (!$expression) {
+    die('You must specify a regular expression.');
+  }
+  $rows = drush_test_get_list();
+  $tests = array();
+  foreach ($rows as $row) {
+    if (ereg($expression, $row[0])) {
+      $tests[] = $row[0];
+    }
+  }
+  simpletest_run_tests($tests, 'text');
+  return $result;
+}
+
+function drush_test_group($groups) {
+  $rows = drush_test_get_list();
+  $tests = array();
+  $groups = explode(',', $groups);
+  foreach ($rows as $row) {
+    if (in_array($row[1], $groups)) {
+      $tests[] = $row[0];
+    }
+  }
+  simpletest_run_tests($tests, 'text');
+  return $result;
+}

That makes running tests so much easier and more fun!