FsHotWatch.TestPrune 0.7.0-alpha.28

FsHotWatch.TestPrune

Plugin for test impact analysis. When you change a source file, TestPrune figures out which tests are affected and runs only those -- instead of your entire test suite.

Status: early alpha, and a lot of it is AI-written. APIs and behavior shift between versions and rough edges are expected — your mileage may vary. Issues and PRs are very welcome.

Why

Running all tests after every save is slow. If you change a single function, you probably only need to run 3 tests out of 500. TestPrune uses the warm FSharpChecker's symbol analysis to track which tests depend on which symbols, so it can tell you exactly what to re-run.

How it works

1. You save a file
2. TestPrune receives FileChecked with the warm compiler's results
3. It analyzes which symbols changed
4. It looks up which test classes reference those symbols
5. If testConfigs are provided, it runs only the affected tests
6. It emits TestCompleted for downstream plugins (like Coverage)

The needs-testing queue (why "nothing to test" is trustworthy)

Every changed symbol enters a durable queue (.fshw/test-prune/pending-verification.json) and leaves it only when a test run that covered it completes green. A run that fails, aborts (e.g. a failing beforeRun hook), or never executes commits nothing — those symbols stay queued and keep selecting tests until a covering run passes, across daemon restarts. The "no affected tests — skip" fast path and cached green replays are both gated on this queue being empty, so a green verdict always means "test-equivalent to the last green run", never "tests didn't happen to run". The queue can only err toward over-testing.

Configuration

In .fshw.json:

{
 "tests": {
 "beforeRun": "dotnet build",
 "projects": [
 {
 "project": "MyApp.Tests",
 "command": "dotnet",
 "args": "run --project tests/MyApp.Tests --no-build --",
 "filterTemplate": "--filter-class {classes}",
 "classJoin": " ",
 "group": "unit"
 }
 ]
 }
}

CLI

# Run the gate — TestPrune runs the affected tests as part of it
fshw check

# Rerun a specific slice for investigation (bypasses impact analysis)
fshw test-rerun --filter-class "*MyApp.Tests*"

# Query which tests are affected by recent changes (plugin command)
fshw affected-tests

# Reset coverage baseline — next full run rebuilds coverage.baseline.json
fshw coverage refresh-baseline

Coverage

When projects[].coverage is true (the default), TestPrune asks coverlet to emit its native JSON format per test project under <repoRoot>/<tests.coverageDir>/<project>/:

• coverage.baseline.json — written by every full run. Authoritative snapshot of the whole suite's coverage.
• coverage.partial.json — written by impact-filtered runs. Only the subset of lines the filtered tests touched.
• coverage.cobertura.xml — always derived; downstream gating (coverageratchet, editor badges, etc.) reads this file.

After each test run, TestPrune either converts the baseline directly (full run) or merges the partial into the baseline per-line (max of hit counts) before rewriting the cobertura file. Partial runs never lower the reported coverage.

Bootstrap. If no coverage.baseline.json exists and the run was filtered, TestPrune skips cobertura emission entirely. Run fshw check (or any full-suite invocation) once to produce a baseline; subsequent filtered runs will merge against it.

Caveat. Coverlet's merge keys by file path + line number, not by content hash. Edits between a baseline and a partial can misattribute hits at the line level. The aggregate coverage ratio stays correct.

Programmatic usage

From the :

daemon.RegisterHandler(
 TestPrunePlugin.create
 ".fshw/test-impact.db" // database path
 repoRoot // repo root
 (Some [ // test configs
 { Project = "MyApp.Tests"
 Command = "dotnet"
 Args = "run --project tests/MyApp.Tests --no-build --"
 Group = "unit"
 Environment = []
 FilterTemplate = Some "--filter-class {classes}"
 ClassJoin = " "
 TimeoutSec = None }
 ])
 None // buildExtensions: Database -> ITestPruneExtension list
 None // beforeRun callback
 None // afterRun callback
 None // coveragePaths: project -> CoveragePaths option
 [] // dependsOn: repo-root-relative globs naming external
 // test inputs (migrations, generated files) — their
 // content hash salts the test cache key
)

Install

dotnet add package FsHotWatch.TestPrune