On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:36:06PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> FWIW, I don't see that there's a clear advantage to having the test harness
> *expect* non-zero exit values (or non-empty output as you also suggested).
As I understood it, the proposed approach is about standardizing and
easing the way we perform tests on debian packages. Since it often
happen that both positive and negative tests are a need, having a way to
describe externally (wrt the tests) their expected behaviour seem to me
a good way to factorize in the tester the "expectation" code. It may
also help in writing interfaces for showing tests results which will be
more informative than a simple success/failure message.
I agree though that my "very minimum" assertion was too strong.
Cheers.
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