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On 19/07/13 08:20 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò |
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> <flameeyes@×××××××××.eu> wrote: |
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>> [...] |
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>> And non-deterministic tests are stupid, useless, broken tests. |
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> Amen. Even though there is that 1% of cases in where you want to |
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> have non-deterministic tests. For instance, if you want to run the |
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> same test thousands of times and randomly pick an initial state to |
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> see if you spot a "scenario" in where you have problems |
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> (concurrency problems)... :-) |
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You still want those tests to be deterministic though -- ie, imo it's |
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better to run through a very large set of test-cases in some sort of |
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repeatable order, than to rely on randomization. At least then you |
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know the cases where it succeeds and the cases where it is |
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unknown/untested. |
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..but this is getting off-topic. :) |
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