[qmtest] Annotating Expectations?

[Stefan Seefeld]

Scott Lowrey wrote:

> As an aside, I was trying to grasp the difference between "Save/Load 
> Expectations" and "Save/Load Results".  It's a bit confusing.  Since the 
> file formats are the same, do the two concepts exist simply for semantic 
> reasons?  I suppose I could save twelve result sets for twelve different 
> runs and then have one expectations file that contains the desired 
> result set.... but I could use either operation to do so, right?

I believe the idea is really that you create a 'result' once, make sure
that it is what you expect, then persist it for the next runs as the
'expectation'. That makes it simple to compare actual results against
your expectations...

Regards,
		Stefan