# Rerun test are too flexible in their naming usage
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rerun-test-are-too-flexible-in-their-naming-usage/2445
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**Created:** [August 16, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rerun-test-are-too-flexible-in-their-naming-usage/2445 "2019-08-16T13:55:21Z")
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rerun-test-are-too-flexible-in-their-naming-usage/2445/1 "2019-08-16T13:55:21Z")
If a test named “Foo” fail and a test named “FooBar” fails, it looks like both will be rerun because of the failure of foo.
Exactly like what happened if ones run ctest -R Foo, Foo and FooBar will be run.
This should be improved, but I guess it’s on cmake side.
A way to improve that would be to never have a test name included within another test name.
An example of this actually happening :
[https://buildbot.kitware.com/builders/paraview%40master-luigi-linux-shared-release%2Bgui%2Bmpi%2Bpython2/builds/1133/steps/build-n-test/logs/stdio](https://buildbot.kitware.com/builders/paraview%40master-luigi-linux-shared-release%2Bgui%2Bmpi%2Bpython2/builds/1133/steps/build-n-test/logs/stdio)
pvcrs.XdmfReadStructuredGrid and pvcrs.XdmfReadStructuredGridCollection
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rerun-test-are-too-flexible-in-their-naming-usage/2445/2 "2019-08-16T14:45:14Z")
It should be possible to place the test name within `^$` to the end of the name to prevent running the other matching tests, .e.g
`ctest -R ^Foo$`
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rerun-test-are-too-flexible-in-their-naming-usage/2445/3 "2019-08-16T16:34:46Z")
Indeed, it works fine.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rerun-test-are-too-flexible-in-their-naming-usage/2445/4 "2019-08-20T13:37:40Z")
This change was pushed out to the buildbots.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/rerun-test-are-too-flexible-in-their-naming-usage/2445/5 "2019-08-20T13:39:50Z")
great, thanks @cory.quammen