diff --git a/avocado/plugins/runners/tap.py b/avocado/plugins/runners/tap.py
index 239ab56674..867d74a0ec 100644
--- a/avocado/plugins/runners/tap.py
+++ b/avocado/plugins/runners/tap.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class TAPRunner(ExecTestRunner):
     @staticmethod
     def _get_tap_result(stdout):
         parser = TapParser(io.StringIO(stdout.decode()))
-        result = "error"
+        result = ""
         fail_reason = None
         for event in parser.parse():
             if isinstance(event, TapParser.Bailout):
@@ -50,16 +50,18 @@ def _get_tap_result(stdout):
                 break
             elif isinstance(event, TapParser.Plan):
                 if event.skipped:
-                    result = "skip"
-                    break
+                    if not result:
+                        result = "skip"
+                    continue
             elif isinstance(event, TapParser.Test):
                 if event.result == TestResult.FAIL:
                     result = "fail"
                     fail_reason = event.explanation
                     break
                 elif event.result == TestResult.SKIP:
-                    result = "skip"
-                    break
+                    if not result:
+                        result = "skip"
+                    continue
                 elif event.result == TestResult.XPASS:
                     result = "warn"
                     if event.name:
diff --git a/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/concepts.rst b/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/concepts.rst
index b32048d3c3..7bbe19072f 100644
--- a/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/concepts.rst
+++ b/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/concepts.rst
@@ -207,6 +207,21 @@ difference is that the test result will be decided based on the
 produced output, that should be in `Test Anything Protocol
 <https://testanything.org>`_ format.
 
+Even though such executable can be seen as test suite from avocado point of view,
+it will be considered as one standalone test. If you want to get result of each
+test of such executable, you can get generated tap output in debug.log file.
+:ref:`avocado-log-files`
+
+.. note::
+  The result of Tap test is based on the importance of individual results types
+  like this:
+
+  `SKIP -> PASS -> FAIL`.  
+
+  This means if one of the tests in TAP output
+  is `not ok` the TAP test result is `FAIL`. If all tests are `ok` or `skip`
+  the results is `PASS` and if all results are `skip` the result is `SKIP`.
+
 Test statuses
 -------------
 
diff --git a/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/logging.rst b/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/logging.rst
index 288c3becf1..817db67e7a 100644
--- a/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/logging.rst
+++ b/docs/source/guides/user/chapters/logging.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ from all tests in one place.
  built-in streams in this function.
 
 
+.. _avocado-log-files:
+
 Avocado log files
 -----------------
 
diff --git a/selftests/unit/plugin/runners/tap.py b/selftests/unit/plugin/runners/tap.py
index 877e9cb0bb..63dc240809 100644
--- a/selftests/unit/plugin/runners/tap.py
+++ b/selftests/unit/plugin/runners/tap.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def test_skip(self):
         results = [status for status in runner.run(runnable)]
         last_result = results[-1]
         self.assertEqual(last_result["status"], "finished")
-        self.assertEqual(last_result["result"], "skip")
+        self.assertEqual(last_result["result"], "pass")
         self.assertEqual(last_result["returncode"], 0)
 
     @skipUnlessPathExists("/bin/sh")