yes. Increasing the threshold is a good idea.
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Suneel Marthi <[email protected]>wrote: > These failures are not repeatable, and had seen this happen a few times. > The tolerance margin for this statistical test is presently set at 0.005. > > I once had a test failure that read: > > java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<0.5> but was:<0.50578> > > Maybe change the fuzzfactor for this test from present 0.005 to 0.006? > > > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:00 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Was this repeatable ? > > If transient then the test likely has a variable seed. This test is > statistical and may have too tight a tolerance. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 0:00, Andrew Musselman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Got this error running tests; anyone know what causes this? > > > > Tests run: 9, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 40.063 > sec > > <<< FAILURE! - in org.apache.mahout.math.stats.TDigestTest > > testSequentialPoints(org.apache.mahout.math.stats.TDigestTest) Time > > elapsed: 4.674 sec <<< FAILURE! > > java.lang.AssertionError: expected:<0.5> but was:<0.49489> >
