What exactly do you have in your :test alias?

Eftest returns similar output by default , I suspect kaocha also has options for this. But these are full runners, not just a reporter

That said both are great options

I use HTO with deps.edn in my Expectations library, but I have a piece of code that attempts to resolve and call pjstadig.humane-test-output/activate! explicitly in Expectations -- so if it's on the classpath (via an alias), it gets activated automatically.

:test {:extra-paths ["test/unit"]
          :extra-deps {io.github.cognitect-labs/test-runner {:git/tag "v0.5.1" :git/sha "dfb30dd"}}
          :main-opts ["-m" "cognitect.test-runner"]
          :exec-fn cognitect.test-runner.api/test}

If you want to stick with the Cognitect test runner for simplicity, you could have a small wrapper for cognitect.test-runner.api/test that activates HTO and then calls that test function.

Or you could look at other test runners. Or look at Expectations which is fully compatible with the regular clojure.test stuff, including the Cognitect test runner, but it auto-activates HTO if it's on the classpath.

(BTW, you don't need both :main-opts and :exec-fn -- unless you want to be able to use both -M:test and -X:test)

I had hoped I could leave all the projects as is, and just add something in ~/.clojure/deps.ednkinda like what I did with lein:

{:user {:dependencies [[pjstadig/humane-test-output "0.11.0"]]
        :injections [(require 'pjstadig.humane-test-output)
                     (pjstadig.humane-test-output/activate!)]}}

> (BTW, you don't need both ... both were added with clj -M:neil add test

Yeah, it's just giving you options without needing configuration. What you can do with :main-opts is to require/resolve/call that activate! function and then invoke the Cognitect test-runner main.

(let me just set that up and report back)

Yup, here we go:

{:test
  {:extra-paths ["test"]
   :extra-deps {pjstadig/humane-test-output
                {:mvn/version "0.11.0"}
                io.github.cognitect-labs/test-runner
                {:git/tag "v0.5.1" :git/sha "dfb30dd"}}
   :main-opts ["-e" "((requiring-resolve 'pjstadig.humane-test-output/activate!))"
               "-m" "cognitect.test-runner"]}

(assuming you're on Clojure 1.10 or later)

Since -X invokes just a single function, you'd need a wrapper function, but with -M you can have multiple main options chained together.

Thanks for the explanation and example @U04V70XH6 I have never seen requiring-resolve before, so I would probably have stumbled for a long while before, figuring that one out.