bug#23521: XFAIL

2016-05-18 Thread Peter Johansson
On 05/19/2016 09:04 AM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: Another common use for "expected failure" is to write tests to check >that error conditions arise as expected, for example, by checking that >a program raises an error when given invalid input. I agree that XFAIL can be ambiguous, however I think

bug#23521: XFAIL

2016-05-18 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hi, Reuben Thomas writes: > The documentation says: "It's not uncommon, especially during early > development stages, that some tests fail for known reasons, and that > the developer doesn't want > to tackle these failures immediately (this is especially true when the > failing