[Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 (original) (raw)

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Sun Jan 8 19:09:27 CET 2006

On Jan 8, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

I like the way trial (from twisted) supports this. The test method is written normally, in whatever class makes sense. Then the test is marked with an attribute to say it isn't expected to pass yet. When the code is fixed and the test passes, you get that information in trial's output, and can unmark the test. This avoids having to refactor test classes just to update the status of a test.

So how is the mark added? I would suggest @xfail def testfoo(self): self.assertEquals(0,1)

def test_foo(self): self.assertEquals(0,1) test_foo.todo = "Why this test fails description message."

James

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