Failing unittest Test cases

[Eric]

On  9 January 2006, Scott David Daniels wrote:
> There has been a bit of discussion about a way of providing test cases
> in a test suite that _should_ work but don't.  One of the rules has been
> the test suite should be runnable and silent at every checkin.  Recently
> there was a checkin of a test that _should_ work but doesn't.  The
> discussion got around to means of indicating such tests (because the
> effort of creating a test should be captured) without disturbing the
> development flow.
>
> The following code demonstrates a decorator that might be used to
> aid this process.  Any comments, additions, deletions?

Interesting idea.  I have been prepending 'f' to my test functions that
don't yet work, so they simply don't run at all.  Then when I have time
to add new functionality, I grep for 'ftest' in the test suite.

- Eric