Re: A suggestion RE Xfail tests

["Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bart Schaefer wrote on Wed, 04 May 2022 01:44 +00:00:
> It would be helpful if tests that are expected to fail could list both
> the expected "correct" result (that is, the result if the test were to
> succeed, which would cause the Xfail test to fail) and the expected
> "wrong" output ... so that if the way a test goes wrong changes, that
> too can be seen.
>

Fair request.

FWIW, I don't know of any other test harness that supports this.

> Yes, this can be done now by repeating the test twice, once as an
> xfail and once as a regular test but with the "broken" result ... but
> it might be easier to keep track of if it were all in one place.
>

How about if, for the time being, we use the "duplicate the test"
approach, with F: lines or comments as needed?  Once we have some
experience with that, we may have a better idea of what test harness
functionality to implement.

> (No action on this expected pre-5.9-release, just musing.)