[TIP] Result protocol / pass-fail-error

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 18:35:34 PDT 2009



On Apr 13, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Douglas Philips <dgou at mac.com> wrote:

>>>>> result: STR: PASS | FAIL | ERROR | SKIP | UNKNOWN | KILLED
>
> One more:
> INCONLUSIVE - test did not FAIL, but did not produce statistically
> valid PASS either.
> Used when a test might need to run for, say, 1 week, but instead was
> only permitted/ask to run for one hour. INCONCLUSIVE says that while
> the "frobnitz" (random number generator, whatever) didn't keel over
> and die, we didn't test it long enough for a confident PASS. Or maybe
> this should be a custom status code. :)
>
> -Doug
>

Gut says that's custom



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