From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2004-04-13T02:02:29+09:00
Subject: Re: test / unit question:  facility to mark some tests as      "missing" or "incomplete"


Its Me said:
> I often find myself with some unit tests that run, and several more test
> that I know I really should write but simply can't right now. Being
> hopelessly forgetful and never reading my own comments, I would like some
> way to enter such missing tests as stubs, so that test/unit will give a
> "missing" or "incomplete" test message (but not count is as a test or
> assertion failure).
>
> Is this doable? Does it make sense to do something like this?

Sometimes when I wish to disable a test for a bit, I will change the name
of a test from "test_xyz" to "xtest_xyz".  A simple grep through the
project identifies all such tests for later fixup.

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