+1, agree with Adrien, thanks for bringing this up Erick!


Il giorno mer 21 feb 2018 alle ore 17:15 Adrien Grand <[email protected]>
ha scritto:

> Thanks for bringing this up Erick. I agree with you we should silence
> those frequent failures. Like you said, the side-effects of not silencing
> them are even worse. I'll add that these flaky tests also make releasing
> harder, it took me three runs last time (Lucene/Solr 7.2) for the release
> build to succeed because of failed tests.
>
> Le mer. 21 févr. 2018 à 16:52, Erick Erickson <[email protected]> a
> écrit :
>
>> There's an elephant in the room, and it's that failing tests are being
>> ignored. Mind you, Solr and Lucene are progressing at a furious pace
>> with lots of great functionality being added. That said, we're
>> building up a considerable "technical debt" when it comes to testing.
>>
>> And I should say up front that major new functionality is expected to
>> take a while to shake out (e.g. autoscaling, streaming, V2 API etc.),
>> and noise from tests of new functionality is expected while things
>> bake.
>>
>> Below is a list of tests that have failed at least once since just
>> last night. This has been getting worse as time passes, the broken
>> window problem. Some e-mails have 10 failing tests (+/-) so unless I
>> go through each and every one I don't know whether something I've done
>> is causing a problem or not.
>>
>> I'm as guilty of letting things slide as anyone else, there's been a
>> long-standing issue with TestLazyCores that I work on sporadically for
>> instance that's _probably_ "something in the test framework"....
>>
>> Several folks have spent some time digging into test failures and
>> identifying at least some of the causes, kudos to them. It seems
>> they're voices crying out in the wilderness though.
>>
>> There is so much noise at this point that tests are becoming
>> irrelevant. I'm trying to work on SOLR-10809 for instance, where
>> there's a pretty good possibility that I'll close at least one thing
>> that shouldn't be closed. So I ran the full suite 10 times and
>> gathered all the failures. Now I have to try to separate the failures
>> caused by that JIRA from the ones that aren't related to it so I beast
>> each of the failing tests 100 times against master. If I get a failure
>> on master too for a particular test, I'll assume it's "not my problem"
>> and drive on.
>>
>> I freely acknowledge that this is poor practice. It's driven by
>> frustration and the desire to make progress. While it's poor practice,
>> it's not as bad as only looking at tests that I _think_ are related or
>> ignoring all tests failures I can't instantly recognize as "my fault".
>>
>> So what's our stance on this? Mark Miller had a terrific program at
>> one point allowing categorization of tests that failed at a glance,
>> but it hasn't been updated in a while.  Steve Rowe is working on the
>> problem too. Hoss and Cassandra have both added to the efforts as
>> well. And I'm sure I'm leaving out others.
>>
>> Then there's the @Ignore and @BadApple annotations....
>>
>> So, as a community, are we going to devote some energy to this? Or
>> shall we just start ignoring all of the frequently failing tests?
>> Frankly we'd be farther ahead at this point marking failing tests that
>> aren't getting any work with @Ignore or @BadApple and getting
>> compulsive about not letting any _new_ tests fail than continuing our
>> current path. I don't _like_ this option mind you, but it's better
>> than letting these accumulate forever and tests become more and more
>> difficult to use. As tests become more difficult to use, they're used
>> less and the problem gets worse.
>>
>> Note, I made no effort to separate suite .vs. individual reports here.....
>>
>> Erick
>>
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.lucene.index.TestBagOfPositions
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.lucene.index.TestIndexWriterDeleteByQuery
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.lucene.store.TestSleepingLockWrapper
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.analytics.legacy.facet.LegacyFieldFacetCloudTest
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.analytics.legacy.facet.LegacyFieldFacetExtrasCloudTest
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.analytics.legacy.facet.LegacyQueryFacetCloudTest
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.client.solrj.TestLBHttpSolrClient
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.cloud.TestSolrCloudWithSecureImpersonation
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.AutoAddReplicasPlanActionTest
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.core.AlternateDirectoryTest
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org.apache.solr.core.TestLazyCores
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.handler.component.DistributedFacetPivotSmallAdvancedTest
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.ltr.TestSelectiveWeightCreation
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.ltr.store.rest.TestModelManager
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.rest.schema.analysis.TestManagedSynonymFilterFactory
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.search.join.BlockJoinFacetDistribTest
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.security.TestAuthorizationFramework
>> FAILED:  junit.framework.TestSuite.org
>> .apache.solr.update.processor.TestOpenNLPExtractNamedEntitiesUpdateProcessorFactory
>> FAILED:  org.apache.lucene.index.TestStressNRT.test
>> FAILED:  org.apache.solr.cloud.AddReplicaTest.test
>> FAILED:  org.apache.solr.cloud.DeleteShardTest.test
>> FAILED:  org.apache.solr.cloud.PeerSyncReplicationTest.test
>> FAILED:  org.apache.solr.cloud.ReplaceNodeNoTargetTest.test
>> FAILED:  org.apache.solr.cloud.TestUtilizeNode.test
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.api.collections.CollectionsAPIDistributedZkTest.testCollectionsAPI
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.api.collections.ShardSplitTest.testSplitAfterFailedSplit
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.AutoAddReplicasIntegrationTest.testSimple
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.ComputePlanActionTest.testNodeWithMultipleReplicasLost
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.HdfsAutoAddReplicasIntegrationTest.testSimple
>> FAILED:  org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.SystemLogListenerTest.test
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.TriggerIntegrationTest.testEventQueue
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.TriggerIntegrationTest.testMetricTrigger
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.TriggerIntegrationTest.testSearchRate
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.cloud.autoscaling.sim.TestLargeCluster.testSearchRate
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.handler.TestReplicationHandler.doTestIndexAndConfigReplication
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.handler.admin.AutoscalingHistoryHandlerTest.testHistory
>> FAILED:
>> org.apache.solr.rest.schema.analysis.TestManagedSynonymFilterFactory.testCanHandleDecodingAndEncodingForSynonyms
>>
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