On 05/19/2016 09:04 AM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
Another common use for "expected failure" is to write tests to check
>that error conditions arise as expected, for example, by checking that
>a program raises an error when given invalid input.
I agree that XFAIL can be ambiguous, however I think this usage is not
desirable. It gives an additional opposite meaning to XFAIL symbol
which makes it even more confusing.
I agree. When I wanna tests that a program fails with incorrect input, I
prefer writing a tests that calls the program, check that it fails (exit
1 or whatever is expected), and perhaps even parse the error message,
and if it looks like I expect exit 0 aka PASS.
Cheers,
Peter
