# An update on swift-testing progress and stable release plans

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**Category:** Swift Testing\
**Tags:** testing, xctest, unit-testing, visions, swift-testing\
**Created:** [April 24, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.swift.org/t/an-update-on-swift-testing-progress-and-stable-release-plans/71455 "2024-04-24T21:17:57Z")\
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Thanks for the question, @BastianKusserow. swift-testing already performs automatic test discovery at runtime by walking emitted Swift metadata sections. 🙂 SE-0385 was returned for revision and is, in part, superseded by macros as a language feature.

@kubamracek and his colleagues are investigating future language features that would allow emitting custom metadata in a format that swift-testing could adopt. For more information about that effort, see Kuba's first pitch [here](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-low-level-linkage-control-attributes-used-and-section/65877) and his second pitch [here](https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-2-low-level-linkage-control/69752).

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