On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 21:54:59 +0200, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
Le 22/10/12 02:55, Gennadiy Rozenal a écrit :
Vicente J. Botet Escriba <vicente.botet <at> wanadoo.fr> writes:
expected_failures - set expected failures for a test unit
Could you give an example showing the utility of this decorator? This is the same as an existing interface, but applied to auto test case. Yu just telling the framework an amount of assertion failures to expect in test unit, so these can be "ignored" My question is why the user wants to check the failures, s/he can just change the assertion, isn't it? Does the test succeeds if there is less failures than expected?
Expected failures are for the case where the test is implemented, but the functionality is buggy. So you don't want to invert the assertion, you want to mark that you know that the assertion isn't satisfied so you notice when some other test fails. The tests succeed when the tests that were expected to fail pass. It would be nice if it printed some extra diagnostics (unexpected success), but I think it currently only prints number of failures and how many of them were expected, so the unexpected success is not so easy to notice. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>