I'm not familiar with a way to do that specifically from catkin_make
level as it would not make much sense to pass the same argument to all gtests.
But if you just run the specific test directly and then use the --gtest_filter
option: https://github.com/google/googletest/...
For example in tf2 there's a gtest callted test_cache_unittest that can be run with the filter and without like this.
. devel/setup.bash
tfoote@snowman:~/work/workspaces/geometry Last: [127] (0s Seconds)
$ ./devel/lib/tf2/test_cache_unittest --gtest_filter=Bullet*
Note: Google Test filter = Bullet*
[==========] Running 1 test from 1 test case.
[----------] Global test environment set-up.
[----------] 1 test from Bullet
[ RUN ] Bullet.Slerp
[ OK ] Bullet.Slerp (0 ms)
[----------] 1 test from Bullet (0 ms total)
[----------] Global test environment tear-down
[==========] 1 test from 1 test case ran. (1 ms total)
[ PASSED ] 1 test.
And without the filter you can see it running more tests.
tfoote@snowman:~/work/workspaces/geometry Last: [0] (0s Seconds)
$ ./devel/lib/tf2/test_cache_unittest
[==========] Running 8 tests from 2 test cases.
[----------] Global test environment set-up.
[----------] 7 tests from TimeCache
[ RUN ] TimeCache.Repeatability
[ OK ] TimeCache.Repeatability (1 ms)
[ RUN ] TimeCache.RepeatabilityReverseInsertOrder
[ OK ] TimeCache.RepeatabilityReverseInsertOrder (0 ms)
[ RUN ] TimeCache.ZeroAtFront
[ OK ] TimeCache.ZeroAtFront (0 ms)
[ RUN ] TimeCache.CartesianInterpolation
[ OK ] TimeCache.CartesianInterpolation (4 ms)
[ RUN ] TimeCache.ReparentingInterpolationProtection
[ OK ] TimeCache.ReparentingInterpolationProtection (0 ms)
[ RUN ] TimeCache.AngularInterpolation
[ OK ] TimeCache.AngularInterpolation (11 ms)
[ RUN ] TimeCache.DuplicateEntries
[ OK ] TimeCache.DuplicateEntries (0 ms)
[----------] 7 tests from TimeCache (16 ms total)
[----------] 1 test from Bullet
[ RUN ] Bullet.Slerp
[ OK ] Bullet.Slerp (0 ms)
[----------] 1 test from Bullet (0 ms total)
[----------] Global test environment tear-down
[==========] 8 tests from 2 test cases ran. (16 ms total)
[ PASSED ] 8 tests.