there is an autobuilder component with this

 RESULTS - test_basic.OETestExampleDepend.test_example_depends: SKIPPED (0.00s)

this is all this test runs.

# Copyright (C) 2016 Intel Corporation
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
#

from oeqa.core.case import OETestCase
from oeqa.core.decorator.depends import OETestDepends

class OETestExample(OETestCase):
    def test_example(self):
        self.logger.info('IMAGE: %s' % self.td.get('IMAGE'))
        self.assertEqual('core-image-minimal', self.td.get('IMAGE'))
        self.logger.info('ARCH: %s' % self.td.get('ARCH'))
        self.assertEqual('x86', self.td.get('ARCH'))

    def test_example_depends(self):
        pass

class OETestExampleDepend(OETestCase):
    @OETestDepends(['OETestExample.test_example'])
    def test_example_depends2(self):
        pass

    def test_example_no_depends(self):
        pass

Richard,

These test don't to a whole lot.  The skip is supposed to skip.

I think this as little value.

Richard,

These test don't do a whole lot.  The skip is supposed to skip.

It is a small set of tests but there are a few good things in there such as dependency testing.

https://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-autobuilder-helper/commit/?id=c1169d514e7179a41ed59a321cc3f34bd1e8a61a