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

Paul Ganssle, is a software developer at Google, core Python dev, and open source maintainer for many projects, has some thoughts about pytest's xfail. He was an early skeptic of using xfail, and is now an proponent of the feature. In this episode, we talk about some open source workflows that are possible because of xfail. Full TranscriptSpecial Guest: Paul Ganssle.Sponsored By:PyCharm Professional: Try PyCharm Pro for 4 months and learn how PyCharm will save you time. Promo Code: TESTANDCODE22Links:How and why I use pytest's xfail — Paul's blog post mentioned in the episodeCraft Minimal Bug Reports — Matthew Rocklin's articleepisode 111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest - Paul Ganssleepisode 165: pytest xfail policy and workflowepisode 166: unittest expectedFailure and xfail