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

Daniel Herring dherring at tentpost.com
Wed Jan 11 07:16:34 UTC 2012


On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Daniel Herring wrote:
> 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

See also these test protocols:
http://testanything.org/
https://launchpad.net/subunit

- Daniel




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