[MERGE] Move the notes on writing tests out of HACKING into a new file, and improve them.

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:46 +0100, Adrian Wilkins wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > As far as getting everything passing again being a blocker to having PQM
> > lock-step test, I don't think it is - we can decorate the current set of
> > failures fairly easily and new commits would only fail on new problems -
> > letting the win32 interested parties whittle the test suite down.
> > 
> > -Rob
> 
> This was part of my reasoning for suggesting more structured output from 
> the test suite 

I must have missed this conversation :). Note that we have detailed
information already in python; there is no need to change the runtime
output to make use of it - and we can serialise that e.g. through
subunit, if we want to.

-Rob
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