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.

Special Guest: Paul Ganssle.

Links:

How and why I use pytest's xfail — Paul's blog post mentioned in the episode
Craft Minimal Bug Reports — Matthew Rocklin's article
episode 111: Subtests in Python with unittest and pytest - Paul Ganssle
episode 165: pytest xfail policy and workflow
episode 166: unittest expectedFailure and xfail

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