Excerpts from Viktor Villafuerte's message of 2014-08-21 23:46:18 -0700: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to build Varnish 4.0.1 on our build servers using Koji. The > build fails on one of the tests > > varnish-4.0.1/bin/varnishtest/tests/c00017.vtc > > I think I could simply disable the test during the build but I don't > really want to have to do that :) > > > I found a post (varnish ticket trac) which says > > Don't worry of a single or two tests fail, some of the tests are a bit > too timing sensitive (Please tell us which so we can fix it) but if a > lot of them fails, and in particular if the b00000.vtc test fails, > something is horribly wrong, and you will get nowhere without figuring > out what. > > > Is this so? Or do I need to make sure all the test do finish > successfully? > > Anybody has any 'quick' (and good) tips on how to go about this?
An approach we've used for (non-Varnish) timing-sensitive tests is to rerun
them a few times. At its most basic, that's something like this:
#!/bin/sh
run_tests || run_tests || run_tests
Note that this will rerun *all* the tests, not just the failing one(s).
HTH.
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