Thanks Kirk!

~/code/incubator-geode (develop)$ grep -ro "FlakyTest.class" . | grep -v Binary 
| wc -l | xargs echo "Flake factor:"
Flake factor: 136

Anthony


> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:45 PM, William Markito <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> +1
> 
> Are we also planning to automate the additional build task somehow ?
> 
> I'd also suggest creating a wiki page with some stats (like how many
> FlakyTests we currently have) and the idea behind this effort so we can
> keep track and see how it's evolving over time.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Kirk Lund <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> After completing GEODE-1233, all currently known flickering tests are now
>> annotated with our FlakyTest JUnit Category.
>> 
>> In an effort to divide our build up into multiple build pipelines that are
>> sequential and dependable, we could consider excluding FlakyTests from the
>> primary integrationTest and distributedTest tasks. An additional build task
>> would then execute all of the FlakyTests separately. This would hopefully
>> help us get to a point where we can depend on our primary testing tasks
>> staying green 100% of the time. We would then prioritize fixing the
>> FlakyTests and one by one removing the FlakyTest category from them.
>> 
>> I would also suggest that we execute the FlakyTests with "forkEvery 1" to
>> give each test a clean JVM or set of DistributedTest JVMs. That would
>> hopefully decrease the chance of a GC pause or test pollution causing
>> flickering failures.
>> 
>> Having reviewed lots of test code and failure stacks, I believe that the
>> primary causes of FlakyTests are timing sensitivity (thread sleeps or
>> nothing that waits for async activity, timeouts or sleeps that are
>> insufficient on busy CPU or I/O or during due GC pause) and random ports
>> via AvailablePort (instead of using zero for ephemeral port).
>> 
>> Opinions or ideas? Hate it? Love it?
>> 
>> -Kirk
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> ~/William

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