# from Adam Kennedy
# on Friday 18 January 2008 00:23:
>Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>>This is not a command-line
>> conditional bail, but rather "the module won't even load for some
>> reason and thus testing anything else is pointless".
>> ...
>Well, possibly.
>
>The bail outs you'd keep long term are in big test suites where you
> have tests that run early in the order (assuming non-shuffle) that
> suffer a failure that violates the integrity of the test suite
> itself.
>For example, if your compile test can't compile your mail module, then
>running the rest of the test suite is normally pointless.
Well, yes. That's basically what I said, but I was trying to generalize
to things other than mail modules ;-)
Still, BAIL_OUT() is not the droid we're looking for.
--Eric
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