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author | Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> | 2007-03-06 07:39:00 +0000 |
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committer | Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> | 2007-03-06 07:39:00 +0000 |
commit | 5d257baeea19ba2ddb8c0c8560eaf652099a932a (patch) | |
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Add part about new framework and skipping to test notes
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diff --git a/TEST-NOTES b/TEST-NOTES index 32db45a6d..f9c6ab0cd 100644 --- a/TEST-NOTES +++ b/TEST-NOTES @@ -26,6 +26,19 @@ pym/portage/tests/cache/flat_hash/test_foo.py and you would put "cache/flat_hash" into the testDirs variable in __init__.py. + +Skipping +-------- + +Please use the portage.tests.* classes as they support throwing a SkipException for +tests that are known to fail. Normally one uses testing to do Test Driven Development +(TDD); however we do not do that here. Therefore there are times when legitimate tests +exist but fail due to code in trunk. We would still like the suite to pass in some instances +because the suite is built around two things, testing functionality in the current code as +well as poking holes in the current code (isvalidatom is an example). So sometimes we desire +a test to point out that "this needs fixing" but it doesn't affect portage's overall +functionality. You should raise portage.tests.SkipException in that case. + emerge ------ |