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Re: Recognizing expected failures in Mauve
- To: Warren Levy <warrenl at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Recognizing expected failures in Mauve
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 07 Feb 2001 20:46:38 -0700
- Cc: Brian Jones <cbj at gnu dot org>, mauve-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102071920450.13126-100000@fencer.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Warren" == Warren Levy <warrenl@redhat.com> writes:
Warren> XFAIL is expected fail; I needed a tag for *un*expected PASS.
Warren> IMO, XPASS would imply expected pass.
FWIW dejagnu uses `XPASS' to mean this.
From the dejagnu manual:
`XPASS'
A pleasant kind of failure: a test was expected to fail, but
succeeded. This may indicate progress; inspect the test case to
determine whether you should amend it to stop expecting failure.
Tom