On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Benson Margulies wrote: > Do you have a policy for checking in tests that demonstrate a defect? > When diagnosing a problem, one can sometimes end up building up a > significant piece of code that will (with any luck) be a regression > test later. The same person who makes the test may not make the > eventual fix. It might make sense to check these in but skip them in > the default build.
That's fine. There are two options for these types of things: 1) Assert the failure in the test and put a comment that explains it - thus when it's fixed, the test will need to be updated to no-longer assert the failure. 2) @Ignore the test, but put a description in the @Ignore to explain why it's ignored. Currently, the description is not used by the maven tools, but hopefully a new version of surefire will report the comments. In both cases, make sure there is a JIRA logged and put the JIRA ID in the comment. -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
