[cffi-devel] how to treat expected failures in tests

Daniel Herring dherring at tentpost.com
Wed Jan 11 07:09:54 UTC 2012


On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Jeff Cunningham wrote:
> How about OK, FAIL, UNEXPECTEDOK, and EXPECTEDFAIL?

FWIW, here's one established set of terms:
PASS, FAIL, UNRESOLVED, UNTESTED, UNSUPPORTED
(XPASS and XFAIL are not in POSIX; change test polarity if desired)
http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/manual/x47.html#posix

- Daniel




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