[Python-Dev] Checking in a broken test was: Re: [Python-checkins]r41940 - python/trunk/Lib/test/test_compiler.py

[Collin Winter]

On 1/13/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
> my main nit is the name: the test isn't broken in itself, and doesn't need
> to be fixed; it's just not expected to succeed at this time.
>
> the usual term for this is "expected failure" (sometimes called XFAIL).
>
> for the developer, this means that a failure is not a regression, and is pro-
> bably not caused by something that the developer just did.

When I've implemented this kind of thing in the past, I've generally
called the decorator/marker/whatever "TODO" (or some variation of
caps/lowercase).

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Thanks,
Collin Winter