A testcase library

Zack Weinberg zack@codesourcery.com
Mon Dec 23 14:00:00 GMT 2002


Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com> writes:

> I think that KFAIL clarifies the situation (although I, too, have my
> reservations about having too many test states).  It seems few people
> properly understood the purpose of XFAIL, but most instances of XFAIL
> are used to express known failures (take the G++ testsuite for
> example).  The number of times XFAIL should be used should be
> comparatively few.

Can you expand on the difference between KFAIL and XFAIL, please?  I
don't have this new dejagnu version and from over here it sounds like
a distinction without a difference.

zw



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