bzr selftest status codes

Aaron Bentley aaron at aaronbentley.com
Wed Apr 1 14:41:00 BST 2009


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Bob Tanner wrote:
> Looking to add more info to the releasing documentation.
> 
> On a selftest there's a status returned for each test, are these return
> statuses documented somewhere?

I guess not.

> Most are pretty obvious like, OK, but what does XFAIL mean?

eXpected FAILure

A test that is known to fail, indicating a known bug.

> NODEP?

A dependency was missing, preventing the test from being run.

> "was
> gc'd while locked"?

The object was not cleaned up properly before being released.  This may
indicate a flaw in the test, but it may also indicate a flaw in the code
being tested.

Aaron
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