On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 14:45:05 GMT, Andy Goryachev <ango...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> No, let's not. While there may be some rare cases where randomness adds 
>> something useful to the test, automated tests should be predictable.
>
> they become predictable when the seed is known.

Yes, but then you would need to modify the test to rerun it with the same seed 
as the time it failed. If we had a utility that made this easy, then maybe, but 
I'd still be skeptical. I am not convinced that whatever benefit we might get 
is worth the effort or the unpredictability.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1228#discussion_r1313149894

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