166: unittest expectedFailure and xfail
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xfail isn't just for pytest tests. Python's unittest has @unittest.expectedFailure.

In this episode, we cover:

• using @unittest.expectedFailure
• the results of passing and failing tests with expectedFailure
• using pytest as a test runner for unittest
• using pytest markers on unittest tests

Docs for expectedFailure:  https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#skipping-tests-and-expected-failures)

Some sample code.  unittest only: import unittest

class ExpectedFailureTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

@unittest.expectedFailure
def test_fail(self):
    self.assertEqual(1, 0, "broken")

@unittest.expectedFailure
def test_pass(self):
    self.assertEqual(1, 1, "not broken")

unittest with pytest markers: import unittest import pytest

class ExpectedFailureTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

@pytest.mark.xfail
def test_fail(self):
    self.assertEqual(1, 0, "broken")

@pytest.mark.xfail
def test_pass(self):
    self.assertEqual(1, 1, "not broken")

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