Thanks Dawid, I guess if it just spelled IGNORED/A, I wouldn't think it's a typo. If it's possible, can we have it spelled correctly? It's not critical if it's too much work.
Shai On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@cs.put.poznan.pl>wrote: > Hi Shai. > > I think this question may be of relevance to others, so I allowed > myself to CC the list. So: > > > I see these printed when I run test-core: > > > > [junit4] IGNOR/A 0.00s | Test10KPulsings.test10kNotPulsed > > [junit4] > Assumption #1: 'nightly' test group is disabled (@Nightly) > > > > Is IGNOR a typo? Or is it a weird locale? > > JUnit has the notion of "ignored" test (marked with @Ignore) or > "assumption-ignored" test which is physically executed but at some > point ends with an AssumptionViolatedException: > > > https://github.com/KentBeck/junit/blob/master/src/main/java/org/junit/internal/AssumptionViolatedException.java > > The primary distinction is that the test can evaluate a condition and > decide to throw an assumption while @Ignore is unconditional. There > are also other technical side-effects -- listeners do get informed > about the cause of an assumption (an instance of the thrown exception) > while they are not informed about any cause of the ignored test (I > think because it was at some point assumed that tests can only be > ignored for one reason -- @Ignore annotation). Assumption-ignore > exceptions can happen simultaneously with other exceptions resulting > from rules -- the behavior then is not clearly defined... > > Randomizedtesting's <junit4> task tries hard to report all the events > that really happened and report them -- including assumption-failed > tests. So IGNOR/A is an assumption-ignored test (as opposed to IGNORED > which is a test ignored for other reasons). > > Hope this helps, > > Dawid >
