[shawabawa3]

pending might as well not be there.

how many maybes passed could be useful information - perhaps 80% is good enough to be confident it works, but if it's 20% something's gone wrong

[steveklabnik]

Pending is really useful: it can also tell you if a test that you expected to be passing is now failing. It's also useful for hiding output for tests that are temporarily failing, until you fix them all.

I'll often spec out a whole behavior, with ten or fifteen tests, and then mark all but one pending, make that one pass, unmark another one, make that pass, unmark another... it's easier to focus on just the one you're working on rather than 19 other failing outputs.

Committing a pending test? yeah, that's bad.