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Re: RFA: Testsuite patches...
- To: Donn Terry <donnte at microsoft dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: Testsuite patches...
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:11:36 -0400
- CC: "'Daniel Berlin'" <dberlin at redhat dot com>, Kevin Buettner <kevinb at cygnus dot com>, Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>, GDB Discussion <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, GDB Patches Mail List <gdb-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat , Inc. - Toronto
- References: <309F4FC4705DC844987051A517E9E39B16EFE6@red-pt-02.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
One thing that I have proposed once, just because of this problem, was to create
the KNOWN failures category. This was to prevent abusing XFAIL that means that
a test is expected to fail in a certain platform because of problems not related
to the tool being tested (a OS portability problem, bug, old OS version etc).
This category would also be used to link to the bug database (gnats?) so that
by the tests results we could could compile a list of known issues and also so
that we could activate the tests after fixing the bug.
It was decided, at the time, that we should just XFAIL the tests and add
appropriate comments telling that this was a known bug and mentioning the bug
database ticket (abusing XFAIL a little more IMO).
We can add the tests and mark them as XFAILs (with the appropriate comments).
This way we keep increasing the test base and still can use the number of failures
to check the result of changes etc.
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Fernando Nasser
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