# How to skip test

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/how-to-skip-test/1582
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 17, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/how-to-skip-test/1582 "2020-07-17T21:22:22Z")
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### Author: ![matzeri](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@matzeri](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/matzeri)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2020, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/how-to-skip-test/1582/1 "2020-07-17T21:22:22Z")

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I am packaging 3.17.3 for Cygwin.  
as during the tests one of them stacks and never completes

```
    Start 149: ExternalProject

```

how I can skip it to continue with the next ones ?

Thanks  
Marco

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### Author: ![brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/brad.king/32/11_2.png) [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/how-to-skip-test/1582/2 "2020-07-20T12:47:18Z")

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Thanks for working on that package!

To skip that test, run the tests via `ctest` and add the `-E "^ExternalProject$"` option.

It is strange that the test hangs though. We have nightly testing on both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin and that test passes.