RE: Test XFail/Skip policy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane_at_xbc.nu]
> Sent: dinsdag 10 maart 2009 16:27
> To: Branko Cibej; dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Test XFail/Skip policy
>
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:07:15PM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote:
> >
> >> The thing I'd find useful is adding an optional comment to XFail and
> >> Skip; so for this test, you could Xfail(foo, reason="yeah we know its
> >> broken, this is issue #bla, foo@ is working on it, don't panic")
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, that would do!
> >
>
> Guess what -- that's a bitesize (for me). :) And an opportunity to
> contribute some code, not just blab, after a long time. I'm on it.

I think we need a separate marker for might fail, and must fail.

Currently XFail is a must-fail and breaks the buildbots if it doesn't fail
(XPass error).

Skip just skips the test, so that is not a real solution to fixing a test.

        Bert

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