Failure Is An Option

There are three varieties of test failures and several solutions.

• A failure indicating a mistake/bad assumption in the test suite.

• You fix it.

• A real failure indicating a bug or missing feature.

• You fix it, or...

• You put off fixing it and...

• comment out the test (blech) or...

• declare it "TODO"

• A failure due to an assumption about the environment.

• You can't fix it, so you "skip" it.

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