* Martijn Dashorst:

> In  Wicket development  (on the  core project),  the unit  tests
> sometimes just don't  run for a couple of days  because they are
> used  as  a  method  of  communication:  someone  knows  how  to
> reproduce a  bug but doesn't know  how to fix it. The  unit test
> exposing the  bug is  then committed, so  that someone  else can
> look at it in due time.

Mmm actually  I don't really  agree, making the build  fail should
not  be  intentional.  We  could  have  some convention  like  for
example naming  the failing  unit test methods  after bugTestXXX()
instead of testXXX() to make it obvious that the test does not run
and that there is a bug.
-- 
     Jean-Baptiste Quenot
aka  John Banana   Qwerty
http://caraldi.com/jbq/

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