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Re: How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?

To: Dan Prince <dan.prince@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Justin Santa Barbara <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Clay Gerrard <clay.gerrard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:09:03 +0000
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Thread-topic: [Openstack] How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?

Unittest2 lets you define a test case that is expected to fail:
http://docs.python.org/library/unittest.html#unittest.expectedFailure

new in 2.7, but it could be possible to backport - or do something similar...

May have issues with nose:
http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/issues/detail?id=325

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Re: How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?
From: Tim Simpson, 2011-02-28

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How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?
From: Justin Santa Barbara, 2011-02-28
Re: How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?
From: Dan Prince, 2011-02-28