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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Running tests using virtualx.eclass should be allowed to be forced to run in virtual X always
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:21:10
Message-Id: CAN3AtvrPuPvVdYR57Nt6LdNNLLZoLxEOXgJQUx_FXU7upTo=fQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Running tests using virtualx.eclass should be allowed to be forced to run in virtual X always by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò
2 <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote:
3 > [...]
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5 > And non-deterministic tests are stupid, useless, broken tests.
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7 Amen.
8 Even though there is that 1% of cases in where you want to have
9 non-deterministic tests. For instance, if you want to run the same
10 test thousands of times and randomly pick an initial state to see if
11 you spot a "scenario" in where you have problems (concurrency
12 problems)... :-)
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16 > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
17 > flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
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22 Fabio Erculiani

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