Scott David Daniels wrote: > OK I carried the code I offered earlier in this whole thread (tweaked in > reaction to some comments) over to comp.lang.python, gathered some > feedback, and put up a recipe on the cookbook. After a week or so for > more comment, I'll be happy to submit a patch to include the broken_test > decorator function in unittest. > > Here is where the recipe is, for those who want to comment further: > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/466288
my main nit is the name: the test isn't broken in itself, and doesn't need to be fixed; it's just not expected to succeed at this time. the usual term for this is "expected failure" (sometimes called XFAIL). for the developer, this means that a failure is not a regression, and is pro- bably not caused by something that the developer just did. </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
