From: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: "Zsh hackers list" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: A suggestion RE Xfail tests
Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 02:52:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ae076b1-6f0d-40d8-b1f5-1470048f2332@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7YOn6fqxUVhCO_oi6pbCwr+o9t-90p_tzhSkCUvKdqggg@mail.gmail.com>
Bart Schaefer wrote on Wed, 04 May 2022 01:44 +00:00:
> It would be helpful if tests that are expected to fail could list both
> the expected "correct" result (that is, the result if the test were to
> succeed, which would cause the Xfail test to fail) and the expected
> "wrong" output ... so that if the way a test goes wrong changes, that
> too can be seen.
>
Fair request.
FWIW, I don't know of any other test harness that supports this.
> Yes, this can be done now by repeating the test twice, once as an
> xfail and once as a regular test but with the "broken" result ... but
> it might be easier to keep track of if it were all in one place.
>
How about if, for the time being, we use the "duplicate the test"
approach, with F: lines or comments as needed? Once we have some
experience with that, we may have a better idea of what test harness
functionality to implement.
> (No action on this expected pre-5.9-release, just musing.)
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