mtest: wildcard selection

Allow the use of wildcards (e.g. *) to match test names in `meson test`.

Raise an error is given test name does not match any test.

Optimize the search by looping through the list of tests only once.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md b/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md
index 36fbdcfc1..18ab11165 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Unit-tests.md
@@ -153,6 +153,27 @@ Specify test(s) by name like:
 $ meson test A D
 ```
 
+You can run tests from specific (sub)project:
+
+```console
+$ meson test (sub)project_name:
+```
+
+or a specific test in a specific project:
+
+```console
+$ meson test (sub)project_name:test_name
+```
+
+Since version *1.2.0*, you can use wildcards in project
+and test names. For instance, to run all tests beginning with
+"foo" and all tests from projects beginning with "bar":
+
+```console
+$ meson test "foo*" "bar*:"
+```
+
+
 Tests belonging to a suite `suite` can be run as follows
 
 ```console