I agree that skipped tests are not failures. Testing should attempt to break the code, and its goal is to produce failures (which then lead to fixes to defects in the code). From that perspective, a test that passes and a test that isn't run provide roughly the same amount of information.
--Philip Labee Covalent Technologies, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Skipped tests marked as failed? I thought skipped subtests were supposed to be treated as qualified successes? And Doug, didn't you say the output displayed by the skip sub would say 'skipped'? # Testing LimitRequestBody; should succeed # Chunked transfer-encoding enabled # Chunked upload not tested; not supported by this version of LWP ok 7 # # Chunked upload not tested; not supported by this version of LWP : # Testing LimitRequestBody; should fail # Chunked transfer-encoding enabled # Chunked upload not tested; not supported by this version of LWP ok 9 # # Chunked upload not tested; not supported by this version of LWP : FAILED tests 7, 9 Failed 2/10 tests, 80.00% okay Looks like 'skip' reported 'ok', but got recorded as a failure..? -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "All right everyone! Step away from the glowing hamburger!"
