Re: Test document draft

It is also possible to report earl:notApplicable instead of earl:fail 
for tests that fail but have an alternate passing.

See the Jena earl results which do this.

Jeremy

Clark, John wrote:
>>>> - Two properties were suggested in an earlier John-l patch
>>> [2] to capture (formally) the relationship between alternative test 
>>> outputs:
>>>
>>> How are those properties consumed? Data that isn't consumed rots.
> 
>> I was planning to augment the test harness to be smarter
>> about the reporting of test failure based upon these terms.
> 
> And I went ahead and did it.  The patch (which should be attached to
> this email) makes `testft.py` aware of these terms in the following way.
> If a test fails, but another test passes that is an alternative to the
> first test, then the summary notes this fact.  If the only failing tests
> are tests such that an alternative passed, then the final summary
> message "All tests were passed (or had an alternate test pass)!" is
> displayed.  The EARL results are unchanged; only the descriptive output
> is modified.
> 
> Take care,
> 
>     John L. Clark
> 
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