On 09/20/2010 01:52 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > On 09/20/10 07:44 AM, Johan S. R. Nielsen wrote: > >>> Just to check: What happens if you rerun these tests? >>> >>> $ cd SAGE_ROOT >>> $ ./sage -t "devel/sage/sage/misc/explain_pickle.py" >>> $ ./sage -t "devel/sage/sage/combinat/iet/reduced.py" >> >> Excellent question - naively, I hadn't thought of trying that. In >> fact, both tests pass on every rerun. This is kind of scary except if >> someone has a good explanation.
I don't, unfortunately. Does anyone have suggestions? Both of the failed tests appear to involve pickling. > The explanation is that parallel testing is unreliable. People are > working on improving it. According to Johan's post, the tests were run with './sage -testall', which uses the serial runner sage-test. Were other CPU-intensive processes running at the time? > I've had one example of where a test was reported to fail, but the log > showed it passed. > > It makes me wonder if there are cases where a test fails, but it does > not get reported properly. That would be the most scary thing. -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
