Can I focus doctest on a particular function in a module or can I exclude functions from being tested?

[halloleo]

When I develop a module with a bunch of functions and I am working on one function I don't necessarily want to always test all functions in that module. -- Is there a way to narrow doctest to a particular functions in a module?

Or -- the other way around -- can I exclude functions from being tested?

[sol]

I think it is currently not possible.

NB:

doctest is a tool for testing documentation. doctest make sure that examples in your documentation do actually work.

doctest is not suitable for testing code. If you want to test code then hspec will give you a much more pleasant experience.

hspec is much faster thandoctest. hspec also allows you to focus on individual tests with focus, fit, and fdescribe.

[halloleo]

Thanks for this info. Makes sense.

I'm just learning Haskell and in our course we use doctest as the "testing framework". When I'm "libearting" from the course, is hspec the framework in Haskell? I thought QuickCheck is the one...