.. sectionauthor:: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
-.. versionchanged:: 3.1
- Added test :ref:`skipping and expected failures <unittest-skipping>`.
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The Python unit testing framework, sometimes referred to as "PyUnit," is a
Python language version of JUnit, by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma. JUnit is, in
turn, a Java version of Kent's Smalltalk testing framework. Each is the de
Skipping tests and expected failures
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+.. versionadded:: 3.1
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Unittest supports skipping individual test methods and even whole classes of
tests. In addition, it supports marking a test as a "expected failure," a test
that is broken and will fail, but shouldn't be counted as a failure on a