On Tuesday 2014-06-03 15:21 +0200, Mike de Boer wrote:
> On 03 Jun 2014, at 15:07, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:
> > I assume that the mochitest version will use a different reporter that 
> > doesn't throw-and-terminate, to preserve the current semantics of mochitest 
> > assertions.  (If this assumption is incorrect, we need to have a separate 
> > discussion about that.)  If so, we'll have the same methods but different 
> > semantics in the different harnesses.  Not sure how much of a problem that 
> > is in practice... not least because I don't think people actually write 
> > xpcshell tests all that much.
> 
> Ideally, run-until-failure would be a configurable option per test suite. For 
> example, in automation weโ€™d continue on failure and locally weโ€™d stop on 
> failure. Additionally, thatโ€™d be configurable per test and per run.

Locally I generally want to see all the failures, since seeing the
complete set of failures is often a much better hint as to the cause
of the failures than just seeing the first one.

-David

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