Issues

• Kotest-bom 6.2.6: several dependencies vulnerabilities

  kotest/kotest#6258 · Filter by author avpragana opened on Oct 22, 2026

• The failOnNoDiscoveredTests opt-out is not needed on the JVM path, where Gradle counts Kotest's results correctly

  kotest/kotest#6257 · Filter by author esafak opened on Oct 22, 2026

• Provide support for users to provide a dispatcher

  kotest/kotest#6236 · Filter by author alfonsoristorato opened on Sep 19, 2026
  

• Proposal: scenario-based Allure reporting — feedback on upstream integration and migration

  kotest/kotest#6235 · Filter by author CrazyMoonkin opened on Sep 18, 2026
  1

• Json: partial array matches

  kotest/kotest#6229 · Filter by author jlous opened on Sep 11, 2026
  1

• Swarm testing support for property based testing

  property-testing 📏
  Feature

  kotest/kotest#6225 · Filter by author ursusursus opened on Sep 5, 2026

• Consider changing the beforeSpec/afterSpec contract

  framework 🏗️
  Feature

  kotest/kotest#6208 · Filter by author marcphilipp opened on Aug 4, 2026
  3

• With SpecExecutionMode.Concurrent all tests run on the runner's single runBlocking thread — one blocking test freezes eventually()/withTimeout in every other test

  kotest/kotest#6188 · Filter by author MaciekHar opened on Jul 24, 2026
  1

  

• Feature: alias to shouldBeTypeOf

  assertions 🔍
  Feature

  kotest/kotest#6152 · Filter by author jlous opened on Jun 19, 2026
  7

  

• Custom Gradle tasks are incompatible with the new com.android.kotlin.multiplatform.library plugin

  kotest/kotest#6132 · Filter by author silenium-dev opened on Jun 12, 2026
  1

• Unbounded API surface: overlapping assertions with divergent implementations and no clear semantic boundaries

  kotest/kotest#6108 · Filter by author kirillakhmetov opened on Jun 5, 2026

• Should infix-style extension functions be extracted into a separate artifact?

  assertions 🔍
  Feature

  kotest/kotest#6107 · Filter by author kirillakhmetov opened on Jun 5, 2026 · 6.3
  3

  

• Performance: shouldContain and related matchers iterate all elements, building and discarding debug info for every non-matching element

  kotest/kotest#6106 · Filter by author kirillakhmetov opened on Jun 5, 2026
  1

  

• Feature: more expressive EventuallyConfiguration helpers

  assertions 🔍
  Feature

  kotest/kotest#6104 · Filter by author jlous opened on Jun 3, 2026 · 6.3
  

• Koin bug is more likely to trigger in Kotest's KoinExtension after Kotest v6 upgrade

  kotest/kotest#6006 · Filter by author glasser opened on May 8, 2026
  2

• Data classes that inherit from map or collection will use wrong comparison

  assertions 🔍
  kotest/kotest#5202 · Filter by author walterbrebels opened on Nov 19, 2025
  7

• Compose multiplatform jvm tests

  android 🤖
  kotest/kotest#5052 · Filter by author walterbrebels opened on Sep 3, 2025
  4

  

• intellij-plugin: run disabled test manually

  intellij-plugin 🖥️
  Feature

  kotest/kotest#4882 · Filter by author jlous opened on Jun 2, 2025 · 6.2
  15

  

• FreeSpec doesn't play well with ktor-server-test-host

  framework 🏗️
  kotest/kotest#4836 · Filter by author benjishults opened on Apr 2, 2025
  4

• Rerun Failed Tests not working with Kotest tests in IntelliJ IDEA

  blocked 🚫
  Bug

  kotest/kotest#4782 · Filter by author amondnet opened on Feb 21, 2025
  3

  

• Run only tests included via the include statement

  Feature

  kotest/kotest#5357 · Filter by author Rattlehead931 opened on Sep 4, 2024 · 6.2
  1

• Add a withData() overload that accepts one element

  blocked 🚫data-driven-testing 🗃️
  kotest/kotest#3901 · Filter by author Virtlink opened on Feb 29, 2024
  4

• Recursive shrinking

  property-testing 📏
  kotest/kotest#3813 · Filter by author viluon opened on Dec 22, 2023
  4

• Using networknt / json-schema-validator for the backend validation of jsonSchema { }?

  maintenance 🔨
  kotest/kotest#3734 · Filter by author takanuva15 opened on Oct 11, 2023
  1

• Discussion: should nested containers inherit testCoroutineScheduler?

  framework 🏗️
  Bug

  kotest/kotest#3705 · Filter by author Mexator opened on Sep 20, 2023 · 6.2
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