bug#23521: XFAIL

2016-05-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 19 May 2016 at 00:55, Peter Johansson wrote: > > > 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 inval

bug#23521: XFAIL

2016-05-19 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 19 May 2016 at 00:04, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > > It is often easier to write expected-to-fail tests this way (so that > > they can all look the same), rather than have to have, for example, an > > extra driver that converts expected errors into success codes for the > > automake test harness. >