> What is the is benefit of all these XFAIL'ed tests?

A passed XFAIL'ed test is reported. Just as a seemly unrelated change
can make a test fail, a seemly unrelated change can also make the test
pass and it important to be aware both the cases.

On 7 August 2014 21:03, Peter Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is mostly a software design/engineering question:
>
> There are a large number of XFAILed tests in the test suite and some of them
> are rather slow.  Here's a sample output:
>
> sympy/core/tests/test_wester.py[396]
> .........ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
> fXffwffffffffffffffffwffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffwfffffffffffffffffffffffffff
> fffffffffffffffffffffff.fffffffwffffffffffffffffwfffwfffffffffff....swssws..wwww
> wwwww...........................................................................
> ................................................................................
>
> sympy/galgebra/tests/test_ga.py[23] .....ffffff............
> [OK]
> sympy/geometry/tests/test_geometry.py[24] ........................
> [OK]
> sympy/integrals/tests/test_deltafunctions.py[2] ..
> [OK]
> sympy/integrals/tests/test_failing_integrals.py[20] ffffwfwffffwwffwfwws
> [OK]
>
> What is the is benefit of all these XFAIL'ed tests?  I can understand that
> they serve a purpose in documenting behavior but why not just SKIP them to
> cut down on testing time?
>
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