Malcolm Wallace wrote:
Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think it would be a nice requirement that for a test to be marked as
expected-to-fail there must be an open bug about it.
Hmm. Isn't the meaning upside down here? I thought an "expected
failure" was a program that is supposed to fail by the rules of the
language.
The meaning of these terms as we use them here is:
fail = "exhibits incorrect behaviour"
expected = "we know about the bug and don't intend to fix it soon"
the other meaning, that you were expecting, is
fail = "exits with a non-zero exit code"
expected = "exiting with non-zero exit code is the correct behaviour"
We probably aren't consistent with our use of the terminology in the test suite,
that's something we should fix (eg. there's a compile_fail function which refers
to the "non-zero exit code" menaing of "fail").
"desired" wouldn't be right - all failures are undesired.
Cheers,
Simon
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