I've committed a patch that ignores some of the failing tests. I beg every contributor - PLEASE DO NOT ADD MORE SWTBOT tests. I'm really tired of the instability of these tests. There are many problems with these tests like: * They are fragile - a widget being added/removed in other components breaks them * They are not real unit tests - failures are usually not in the component that is supposed to be under test but elsewhere. * They do not help shaping good API as people don't use the API that are exposed but do "clicks" * So much noise generated by swtbot tests in hudson that make the mailing list unusable * No one cares about test failures anymore and ignores them * ............... I do not mind having SWTBot tests in the codebase but they should not be enabled in the default build and hudson. Every test that runs by default must work 100% when doing "mvn clean verify". >From now on, whenever I spot a test case failing more than twice in gerrit >when testing unrelated patch I'll add ignore to it as it is high time to get >reliable builds. I'm really getting tired of these issues.
Tests that fail randomly are useless and even harmless. Period. Alexander Kurtakov Red Hat Eclipse team _______________________________________________ linuxtools-dev mailing list linuxtools-dev@eclipse.org To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from this list, visit https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxtools-dev
