Skip some tests with go test

Testing package has SkipNow() and Skip() methods. So, an individual test could be prepended with something like this:

func skipCI(t *testing.T) {
  if os.Getenv("CI") != "" {
    t.Skip("Skipping testing in CI environment")
  }
}

func TestNewFeature(t *testing.T) {
  skipCI(t)
}

You could then set the environment variable or run CI=true go test to set CI as a command-local variable.

Another approach would be to use short mode. Add the following guard to a test

if testing.Short() {
  t.Skip("skipping testing in short mode")
}

and then execute your tests with go test -short

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