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

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X Phail Isn't Consistently Used Within a Test Suite.

The decorator runs everything m but if you call, like pitest, x fail from a test, it stops there. The one place where i've had trouble introducing x phail is in the set up tools am test suit. I think they've marked a bunch of stuff as xpail or skip its. It's not consistently used. And hopefully this podcast and block posts will convince people to usexpail enough thatthat it will be a higher profile test.

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