From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T04:45:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way to skip tests

On Feb 15, 12:32 pm, Alex Young <a...@blackkettle.org> wrote:
> Daniel Berger wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > What's the general approach folks use for skipping tests? Sometimes I
> > have some tests that I want to skip based on platform (usually MS
> > Windows). I saw the 'flunk' method, but that's considered a failed
> > test. I'm looking for something that doesn't treat it as success or
> > failure.
>
> If you were to factor the platform-dependent tests out into their own
> module which you can conditionally include into the test case, I think
> you'd get what you were after.

It's not a bad idea, but that still wouldn't explicitly indicate to a
user that tests had been skipped - they would merely see fewer tests
run. Plus, it's more work and I'm lazy. :)

Regards,

Dan