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Malformed test function name

Reports malformed names of tests, benchmarks, and examples.

According to Package testing at go.dev, names must follow a special convention in order to make the go tool process them correctly.

Example:

func Testfoo(*testing.T) {} // the 'go' tool will not run this test

After the Rename to quick-fix is applied:

func TestFoo(*testing.T) {}

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoTestName
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | General

Inspection ID: GoTestName

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoTestName

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

GoLand 2025.2, Qodana for Go 2025.2,

Can be installed with plugin:

Go, 252.26654.0

Last modified: 18 September 2025