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What's the difference between a desired and expected result?
by Something1234 8y ago
What's the difference between a desired and expected result?
- thechao 8y agoDesired is what you want to happen, expected is what you expect to happen, and observed is what happened with the current run.
- XorNot 8y agoFrom the perspective of a test that only passes or fails, this doesn't gain you anything. I suppose we could imagine a test system which includes more metadata, and allows for placeholder values to let tests pass while producing an annotation that the product is not production ready.
- zahrc 8y agoWinning lottery is your desired result. Not winning it is your expected result.