The change I made was to add a "flipresult" option that simply turns a success 
into a failure and a failure into a success. This is what I understood I was 
asked to do. On the plus side, this approach also allows the addition of parser 
tests that are supposed to fail (not just have always failed). On the negative 
side it does hide problems that perhaps should remain in the open.

I just looked at the code and it shouldn't be hard to add a knowntofail option 
that acts like flipresult and then add a new category of test result that 
specifies how many known to fail results occurred. However, one issue is 
whether known to fail should count against success/failure (when computing the 
percentage of tests that failed) or whether these results should not count 
toward either.

Would someone tell me where the redirect from index.php to index.php/Main_Page 
occurs in the page processing flow?

--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Kwan Ting Chan <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Kwan Ting Chan <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] "known to fail" switch added to parserTests
> To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 4:43 AM
> Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Gerard
> > Meijssen<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> There is no point having a perfect score when it
> is actually a lie. It seems
> >> to me that Brion is against the removal of these
> tests because he wants them
> >> to pass. Having a third state of "known to fail"
> makes sense, just changing
> >> them to pass makes it necessary to add a "citation
> needed" because it is
> >> just not true.
> > 
> > Nobody's changing them to pass.
> 
> I can understand where Gerard got the impression:
> 
> "I have modified parserTests to take a "known to fail"
> switch so those tests that have always failed now pass." -
> dan nessett 2009-07-20 16:09
> 
> KTC
> 
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