Re: [boost] marking regression test failures as expected

2014-04-30 12:05 GMT+02:00 Daniel James :

On 30 April 2014 10:57, Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:

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Hi, I noticed in the regression tests results taht some failing tests are marked as "fail*" in greyish color indicating that the failure is expected along with the explanation why. E.g.,

http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/teeks99-03a-...

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Question: how can I indicate that the new failure is expected in the same manner?

It's specified in the super project at 'status/explicit-failures-markup.xml'. I think you'll need to create a pull request.

I am trying to learn the syntax of this file and I cannot understand one thing. When I look at tests results here: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/master/developer/optional.html, one test case (optional_test_refhttps://github.com/boostorg/optional/blob/master/test/optional_test_ref.cpp) is marked as expected failure for toolset "gcc- 4.4", but in the file 'status/explicit-failures-markup.xml' I cannot find a corresponding entry for this toolset. How does the testing framework know, then? Regards, &rzej