On 15/11/2007, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe we need a way to mark a test or or a set of tests as 'can fail due > to load, bad randomness, and other fluctuating factors, please try at > least N times (with random sleeps in between) before giving up'? > > This goes for all of t/TEST, t/harness, and the various test modules. > > The other alternative of various module authors having to cook up their > own retry policies would suck majorly. > > (Why do I care? Because I get every other week a report of Time::HiRes > failing, that's why.)
Yes, and other core tests are sensitive to load (stress tests for threads, Benchmark.pm, ...). So that would be useful. But since that probably needs to be discussed at the TAP level, please followup-to perl-qa.
