On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:12:07 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this test-only change which proposes to improve 
> the debuggability of the `test/jdk/sun/nio/cs/TestStringCodingUTF8.java` test?
> 
> This test fails intermittently in our CI in older update releases with errors 
> like:
> 
> java.lang.RuntimeException: getBytes(csn) failed
>     at TestStringCodingUTF8.test(TestStringCodingUTF8.java:111)
>     at TestStringCodingUTF8.test(TestStringCodingUTF8.java:85)
>     at TestStringCodingUTF8.main(TestStringCodingUTF8.java:41) 
> 
> 
> It's not clear from the failures whether this is a test specific issue or 
> some genuine issue in some specific release of the JDK. Since the test uses a 
> `Random` instance to generate the data to test, it isn't easy to reproduce it 
> either.
> 
> The change in this PR proposes to use the `RandomFactory` test library which 
> is equipped with printing the seed used by the `Random` instance. If the test 
> fails in future, the seed should help reproduce the test data that ran into 
> the failure. The change also improves the error messages in the test and 
> updates the `Collections.shuffle()` call to pass it the same `Random` 
> instance that's being used in the test.
> 
> The test continues to pass with this change.
> 
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LGTM. Thanks for improving the test, Jai. I hope we can determine what's going 
on with the failure

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Marked as reviewed by naoto (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31548#pullrequestreview-4517920715

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