Can anyone tell me which of the parser tests are supposed to fail? Also, is 
there a trunk version for which only these tests fail?

--- On Fri, 7/10/09, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Is this the right list to ask questions about 
> parserTests
> To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, July 10, 2009, 3:49 PM
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:35 PM, dan
> nessett<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I don't want to irritate people by asking
> inappropriate questions on this list. So please direct me to
> the right list if this is the wrong one for this question.
> >
> > I ran parserTests and 45 tests failed. The result
> was:
> >
> > Passed 559 of 604 tests (92.55%)... 45 tests failed!
> >
> > I expect this indicates a problem, but sometimes test
> suites are set up so certain tests fail. Is this result good
> or bad?
> 
> We usually have about 14 failures.  We should really
> be able to mark
> them as expected, but our testing framework doesn't support
> that at
> the moment.  The current workaround is to use --record
> and --compare,
> but that's a pain for a few reasons.
> 
> I get 49 test failures.  It looks like someone broke a
> lot of stuff.
> It happens; frankly, we don't take testing too seriously
> right now.
> There are no real automated warnings.  Brion used to
> have a bot post
> parser test results daily to wikitech-l, but that was
> discontinued.
> So people tend to break parser tests without noticing.
> 
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