Name for "expect failure" feature

[JakobJingleheimer]

Related to nodejs/node#60669

I can't figure out to create a poll here (a Discussions-specific feature 😕), so please add new options as a new thread below; then we can discuss each option within that thread, upvoting the ones you like, and 👎 ones to object (-1 from a collaborator will be taken as a block on the option that either needs to be resolved or overturned).

[ljharb]

(linking to nodejs/node#60669)

[avivkeller]

Throwing out some ideas:

• expectFail / expectFailure
• invert (this one's probably the most unintuitive option, but I'm just spitballing. Invert, as failure = success and success = failure)
• shouldFail

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xfail

+1. Also note that Discussions have a built-in polling feature, iirc.

knownFailure

-1. IMO saying something is a known failure is different than saying it's expected to fail. A flakey test can be considered a known failure, but we shouldn't expect it to fail.

[JakobJingleheimer]

I can't figure out how to set up a poll

expectError

• prior art: typescript (@ts-expect-error)
• same semantics

expectedFailure

• prior art: pytest
• searchability: high

failing

• prior art: ava/jest
• searchability: low / zero

[JakobJingleheimer]

fails

• prior art: none
• searchability: low / zero

knownFailure

• prior art: ?
• searchability: high

mustFail

• prior art: C++
• searchability: high
• name suggests it should fail forever

shouldFail

• prior art: none
• searchability: high

xfail

• prior art: common outside JS
• searchability: very high
• a bit convoluted/obscure name

invert

• prior art: none?
• searchability: medium?