I'd have a much easier time accepting that argument if my experience didn't tell me that nearly every single "Test took longer than expected" or "Test timed out" intermittent ends with a RequestLongerTimeout as the fix.

-Ryan

On 2/9/2016 12:50 PM, Haik Aftandilian wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Marco Bonardo <mbona...@mozilla.com> wrote:

Based on that, bumping the timeout may have 2 downsides, long term:
- slower tests for everyone
- sooner or later 90 seconds won't be enough again. Are we going to bump to
180 then?


Essentially restating Marco's concern, increasing timeouts has the side
effect where performance regressions are not noticed. i.e., a new bug that
causes a test to take longer, but still pass, is not detected. With the
original lower timeouts, the test would fail with a timeout. So a little
bit of the value of the tests is lost, and it's difficult to address later.

Haik

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