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How and why I use pytest's xfail - Paul Ganssle

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Is It a Big Thing, or a Small Thing?

i haven't, you i don't know if i'd be comfortable with a cod base with hundreds of x pails. I think anything that accumulate that many expals is probably going to be distributed enough so it's not reproducible any more. There there are se pithon bugs that i've seen fixed. A lot of them, they get reported, and then they get fixed, six, eightten years later. And yet, having xvails for all those bugs would probably spend a lot of time carrying around co carrying around c i resources spent on something that is just really not going to accidentally fix itself.

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