test_that("startup error", { skip_on_covr() withr::local_envvar(TESTTHAT_PARALLEL = "TRUE") err <- tryCatch( suppressMessages(testthat::test_local( test_path("test-parallel", "startup"), reporter = "silent" )), error = function(e) e ) expect_s3_class(err, "testthat_process_error") expect_match(err$message, "This will fail", fixed = TRUE) })