From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:09:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9a4ad5ca-d0c4-5ac8-f18e-a39df869b05b@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22421.63298.204024.286027@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 25/07/16 12:25, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code"):
>> On 22/07/16 10:29, Wei Liu wrote:
>>> This would cause a FAILURE to overwrite previous ERROR result. Is that
>>> what you want?
>> When running more than one test, the overall result should be the most
>> severe. So yes, a subsequent FAILURE should override an ERROR.
> "Error" is surely a more severe problem than "Failure".
No. Error means "something unexpected went wrong", while Failure is
"the test worked, and identified that the area under test is defective".
Error is typically a test case bug or infrastructure issue.
> In particular, Error might mask a failure.
Indeed it could. Either should cause a prompt investigation and effort
to resolve the issues, but one must be more severe than the other and
this is the way things are specified.
~Andrew
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 15:44 [PATCH XTF 0/3] Runner exit code clean up Wei Liu
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 1/3] xtf-runner: sync all test states Wei Liu
2016-07-21 18:49 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 2/3] xtf-runner: provide a set of exit codes for different states Wei Liu
2016-07-21 16:27 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-21 16:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-21 16:37 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-21 18:56 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-21 15:44 ` [PATCH XTF 3/3] xtf-runner: regularise runner exit code Wei Liu
2016-07-21 19:04 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-22 9:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-07-22 9:35 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-25 11:25 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-25 12:09 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2016-07-25 17:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-07-26 8:57 ` Wei Liu
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