Re: xfail: expected failures

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost> wrote:
[...]
> Xfail will be present in atf 0.10 (according to Julio ;).  The current
> implementation is a big binary hammer, meaning it is not possible to
> specify where the test is expected to fail.  This may change for the
> 0.10 release.  If anyone has any other ideas about what they would like to
> see in the this department, I guess now would be a good time to speak up.

Please take a look at this design proposal I have written for the feature:

    http://www.julipedia.org/projects/atf/trac/wiki/DesignXFail

It is a bit different from your current implementation but I think
covers all use cases that we discussed.  Comments?

-- 
Julio Merino