On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:36:34 +0100
Philippe Delavalade <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Maybe a new stupid question :-)
> 
> When running test suites, I often see a number of pass or fail tests
> and that's clear for me but I have also number of Xpass and Xfail and
> this is more unclear.
> 
> Thanks for your explanations.
> 
> Regards.
> 

XFAIL means an expected failure. In other words, this is a test which
is known to fail on a lot of systems because of something in the code
that nobody has the time to fix. Treat it as a PASS.

-
H Russman
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