A lightweight terminal UI for displaying Go tests.

sift is a lightweight terminal UI for displaying Go test results. It allows developers to traverse verbose Go test logs in their terminal. Each test is able to be expanded and collapsed to only show the logs that matter.

go install github.com/timtatt/sift@v0.7.0

You can try a demo of sift with the sample tests provided in the samples folder.

# Clone the repo
git clone github.com/timtatt/sift.git

# Run sift
go test ./samples/... -v -json | sift

sift works by consuming the verbose json output from the go test command. The easiest way to use it is to pipe | the output straight into sift

go test {your-go-package} -v -json | sift

# eg.
go test ./... -v -json | sift

Example:

# Run in non-interactive mode (inline output)
go test ./... -v -json | sift -n

# Enable debug view
go test ./... -v -json | sift --debug

# Disable log prettification
go test ./... -v -json | sift --raw

The keymaps are based on vim motion standard keymaps for scrolling and managing folds. Press ? to toggle the help menu.

Search Tips:

• Type to filter tests using fuzzy matching (case-insensitive)
• Press enter to exit search mode while keeping the filter active
• Press esc to clear the search filter and show all tests

The UI design of sift is heavily inspired by the vitest cli