| Re: [cdt-dev] proposal for side-stepping known test failures |
Andrew,
If the filters I added did not cover failures seen by someone else, and that person also wants to have a reliable test suite, then he should add additional filters. If I see additional unreliable tests in future runs, I will add filters for them.
I wish creating a bugzilla report would result in these intermittent failures being fixed. But I'm not going to hold my breath and I'm not going to waste time creating bugzilla reports for tests that someone has written but has not ensured they run successfully and consistently on Windows. As you already know, there are intermittent failures even on Linux. I've spent a considerable amount of time debugging and fixing ones I could tackle. But I have to move on.
What I want is to be able to run a CDT test suite locally and have zero failures, based on what's in git. Sadly, with these filters, I've reduced the overall test suite from about 12K tests to 3K[*]. I've had to filter entire chunks because failures happen not only intermittently but in random locations within the particular chunk. Hopefully someone who has the time and motivation to run and troubleshoot these tests on Windows will try to address this situation.
I said it before and I'll say it again: a test suite that produces dozens of failures is all but useless for regression detection. I want a test suite that passes 100%. What I've done is rigged the tests so that I and others can get that subset with the flip of a switch.
John
[*] Again, these filters must be manually activated. By default, all tests still run.
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Andrew Gvozdev [angvoz.dev@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:31 PM
To: CDT General developers list.
Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] proposal for side-stepping known test failures
Hi John,This approach does not look particularly scalable. Is it intended that every commiter will add to the CDT code filters for individual tests that fail in his/her environment?// Consistently fails, and, yes, I do have Cygwin in my PATHif (System.getProperty("cdt.skip.known.test.failures") != null) { //$NON-NLS-1$return;}
Why don't create a bug in bugzilla instead to fix the problem for good?
Thanks,Andrew
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Cortell John-RAT042 <RAT042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was able to resolve roughly a dozen intermittent failures caused by a bug in
org.eclipse.cdt.ui.tests.BaseUITestCase.checkTreeNode(IViewPart, int, String)
The implementation searched the entire workbench for the SWT Tree instead of just the given view. This would intermittently (but frequently enough) return, e.g., the Outline view’s tree because it has a root element with the same label as that in the Call hierarchy view. It was just a matter of the order in which the controls in the workbench were found, which is undefined and inconsistent.
So, here we have an example of a test being unreliable, unrelated to OS or environment. The test had a bug and you and Hudson were simply getting lucky.
I’ve pushed the fix to master.
John
From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Overholt
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 7:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] proposal for side-stepping known test failures
> Since we don't have Hudson on Windows
There is a Windows Hudson slave, isn't there? A job could be set up to run either the full CDT build or just the tests on it.
Andrew
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