This post is provided as an informative one rather than a plea for help.
I’ve successfully built my project using CMake; however, the CTest command line does behave as advertised when using the -I option (reference: Mastering CMake » Testing With CMake and CTest » Testing Using CTest). The -I option is intriguing for selective test execution, and it is documented as follows:
-I [Start,End,Stride,test#,test#|Test file]
Run specific tests by range and number.
Specifically, the following fails to limit execution to tests 12 and 21 in my suite:
ctest -j`corecount` --output-on-failure -I ,,,12,21
The following successfully executes the specific tests for CTest 3.26.3:
ctest -j`corecount` --output-on-failure -I 0,0,0,12,21
Neither of the commands listed above work for CTest 3.20.2.
These sort of behavioral and documentation inconsistencies provide a painful user experience. What is a humble(?) developer to do?
SOLUTION?
So far, the following command syntax resolves these behavioral discrepancies for varied versions of CTest:
ctest -j`corecount` --output-on-failure -I 0,0,1,12,21
It seems the Stride parameter is required to be non-zero and the Start,End values must not be blank for consistency when one wants to limit test execution to specific test numbers. It’s unfortunate that the so-called “CMake bible” does not clarify such nuance.
EDIT
One final comment to add to this post. The -LE option is incompatible with the -I option. Using them simultaneously may not execute the desired tests pecified by the -I option.