Add test variants for unit tests (test(...) method)

[Goddchen]

Use case

I love the variants feature/field of the testWidgets(...) method. I'd also love to have this feature on for unit tests - the test(...)` method.

Proposal

I'm willing to "port" the feature over and create a PR. I just want to know beforehand, if that makes any sense at all or if the work would be pointless, since the PR would not be approved. Maybe the team wants people to simply use testWidgets(...) if they want to use the variants feature, or something like that.

[exaby73]

Hello @Goddchen. Thank you for raising this issue. Though this has nothing to do with Flutter/flutter_test. The test function is exported from the Dart test package. This issue is better raised in dart-lang/sdk. Since this has nothing to do with Flutter, I am closing this issue. Thank you.

[Goddchen]

@exaby73 I would argue that this is not correct. When you use the test(...) method in code, you don't use the one from the Dart SDK, you will use the one that is part of the flutter_test package and resides in this file: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/master/packages/flutter_test/lib/src/test_compat.dart.

So are you saying that this file is kind of "auto-imported" from the Dart SDK?

[exaby73]

Hmmm... I just checked too. Seems they have very similar code but there are differences. Thanks for catching this :D. Labeling this issue for further insights from the team.

https://github.com/dart-lang/test/blob/3166163ee5e2c134feb5ebd5c803663a20930df8/pkgs/test_core/lib/scaffolding.dart#L133-L155