When I run my Qt Unit Test project, it ends with a summary that looks like this:
Totals: 28 passed, 1 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted
The "passed" and "failed" categories are obvious, but what is the meaning of "skipped" and "blacklisted"?
Under what conditions will the test framework skip a test? How is that different from blacklisting it?
My Qt version is Qt 5.4.1.
Test is skipped, if QSKIP() gets called from a test method/slot.
QTestlib looks for a file called BLACKLIST in the test directory and parses it if found. The file contains a simple ini style list of functions to blacklist. For details see qtestblacklist.cpp.
For example, Qt5 has BLACKLIST file (without .ini extension) at tests/auto/corelib/kernel/qobject folder, with contents like:
[moveToThread]
windows
Which tells QTestlib to don't treat the moveToThread named slot as a test-case if the platform is windows, and instead, just increment "blacklisted" count.