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Update building/tooling/test-runners/interface.md
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Expand Up @@ -52,9 +52,7 @@ The following overall statuses are valid:
- `fail`: At least one test has the status `fail` or `error`
- `error`: No test was executed (this usually means a compile error or a syntax error)

The `error` status should _only_ be used if **none of the tests were run**.
For compiled languages this is generally a result of the code not being able to compile.
For interpreted languages, this is generally the result of a syntax error that stops the file from parsing.
The `error` status should _only_ be used if **all of the tests errored**. For compiled languages this is generally a result of the code not being able to compile. For interpreted languages this is a runtime error, such as a syntax error that stops the file from parsing.

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