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Re: KFAIL tests in testsuite
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>
- Cc: systemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:00:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: KFAIL tests in testsuite
- References: <47A0DDCB.1090303@redhat.com>
William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> writes:
> I am looking through and appropriately markiung tests that fail due to
> known reasons as KFAIL. So something like the attached patch.
This one is fine.
> The one concern that I have about marking some tests as KFAIL is
> that failure may vary on the environment. Some versions of
> supporting software or kernels may cause a test to fail. However,
> the test doesn't uniformly fail. [...]
Right, though if this becomes a problem (so one can't tell whether
one's dealing with something new), then one can conditionalize the
setup_kfail clauses further, based on architecture, versions, and
maybe even a bit of whatnot(tm).
- FChE