Tuist Test: targets not found with `test-targets` arguments

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Source

tuist/tuist #6942

Updated

Jun 11, 2026

Domains

CLI

Details

What happened?

Duplicated from this discussion: https://community.tuist.io/t/stop-using-focus-when-testing/136

I have a script that allows generating XCTestPlan in which all unit-test targets that are in the workspace are, using gem xcodeproj.

I am thinking of abandoning the testPlan generation and passing the entire list via the --test-targets flag, but I encountered unexpected behavior:

At the first launch, everything works correctly. At the second launch, focusing occurs, excluding test targets on which tests were previously launched. This results in an error:

The following targets were not found: A, B, C

Deleting the ~/.cache/tuist/SelectiveTests folder fixes the error, but deletes the cache 😕

This behavior seems contradictory and requires (in the current situation) a premature error: –test-targets cannot be used together with –selective-testing

How do we reproduce it?

Call twice follow command:

tuist test --platform iOS --test-targets A B C --selective-testing

Error log

The following targets were not found: A, B, C

macOS version

Tuist version

4.31.0

Xcode version

14.3

Comments

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amarcadet Jan 29, 2025

I am currently facing the same issue.

Using Tuist 4.40 I can reproduce the same behavior.

During the first run using tuist test --test-targets XXXTests the tests are correctly executed.

During the second run using the same command and parameters I get the error The following targets were not found: XXXTests. Please, make sure they exist.

If I perform tuist clean selectiveTests and then run the tests, it works fine but at the cost of losing the cache.

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pepicrft Jan 30, 2025

I’ll look into it ;)

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robmaceachern May 28, 2025

We’re also suffering from this (and it was quite confusing when experimenting with --test-targets).

Tuist Test: targets not found with test-targets arguments