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package org.scalatest.exceptions

/**
 * Exception thrown to indicate a test is pending.
 *
 * 
 * A pending test is one that has been given a name but is not yet implemented. The purpose of
 * pending tests is to facilitate a style of testing in which documentation of behavior is sketched
 * out before tests are written to verify that behavior (and often, the before the behavior of
 * the system being tested is itself implemented). Such sketches form a kind of specification of
 * what tests and functionality to implement later.
 * 
 *
 * 
 * To support this style of testing, a test can be given a name that specifies one
 * bit of behavior required by the system being tested. The test can also include some code that
 * sends more information about the behavior to the reporter when the tests run. At the end of the test,
 * it can call method pending, which will cause it to complete abruptly with TestPendingException.
 * Because tests in ScalaTest can be designated as pending with TestPendingException, both the test name and any information
 * sent to the reporter when running the test can appear in the report of a test run. (In other words,
 * the code of a pending test is executed just like any other test.) However, because the test completes abruptly
 * with TestPendingException, the test will be reported as pending, to indicate
 * the actual test, and possibly the functionality, has not yet been implemented.
 * 
 *
 * @author Bill Venners
 */
class TestPendingException extends RuntimeException

// This one isn't lazy, because, well, it could be lazy, but it is different than failed.