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title: resolve tests
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topics:
- Code Security
- Code scanning
- CodeQL
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intro: '[Deep plumbing] Find QL unit tests in given directories.'
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## Synopsis
```shell copy
codeql resolve tests <options>... -- <test|dir>...
```
## Description
\[Deep plumbing] Find QL unit tests in given directories.
This plumbing command is responsible for expanding the command-line
parameters of subcommands that run QL unit tests, to an actual list of
individual .ql and .qlref files to execute.
## Options
### Primary Options
#### `<test|dir>...`
Each argument is one of:
* A `.ql` or `.qlref` file that defines a test to run.
* A directory which will be searched recursively for tests to run.
#### `--slice=<N/M>`
\[Advanced] Divide the test cases into _M_ roughly equal-sized slices
and process only the _&#x4E;_&#x74;h of them. This can be used for manual
parallelization of the testing process.
#### `--[no-]strict-test-discovery`
\[Advanced] Only use queries that can be strongly identified as tests.
This mode tries to distinguish between `.ql` files that define unit
tests and `.ql` files that are meant to be useful queries. This option
is used by tools, such as IDEs, that need to identify all unit tests in
a directory tree without depending on previous knowledge of how the
files in it are arranged.
Within a QL pack whose `qlpack.yml` declares a `tests` directory, all
`.ql` files in that directory are considered tests, and `.ql` files
outside it are ignored. In a QL pack that doesn't declare a `tests`
directory, a `.ql` file is identified as a test only if it has a
corresponding `.expected` file.
For consistency, `.qlref` files are limited by the same rules as `.ql`
files even though a `.qlref` file cannot really be a non-test.
#### `--format=<fmt>`
Select output format, either `text` _(default)_ or `json`.
### Common options
#### `-h, --help`
Show this help text.
#### `-J=<opt>`
\[Advanced] Give option to the JVM running the command.
(Beware that options containing spaces will not be handled correctly.)
#### `-v, --verbose`
Incrementally increase the number of progress messages printed.
#### `-q, --quiet`
Incrementally decrease the number of progress messages printed.
#### `--verbosity=<level>`
\[Advanced] Explicitly set the verbosity level to one of errors,
warnings, progress, progress+, progress++, progress+++. Overrides `-v`
and `-q`.
#### `--logdir=<dir>`
\[Advanced] Write detailed logs to one or more files in the given
directory, with generated names that include timestamps and the name of
the running subcommand.
(To write a log file with a name you have full control over, instead
give `--log-to-stderr` and redirect stderr as desired.)
#### `--common-caches=<dir>`
\[Advanced] Controls the location of cached data on disk that will
persist between several runs of the CLI, such as downloaded QL packs and
compiled query plans. If not set explicitly, this defaults to a
directory named `.codeql` in the user's home directory; it will be
created if it doesn't already exist.
Available since `v2.15.2`.