On 1/13/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
When I've implemented this kind of thing in the past, I've generally called the decorator/marker/whatever "TODO" (or some variation of caps/lowercase). </bikeshed> Thanks, Collin Winter _______________________________________________ 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
