> On 14. Dec 2019, at 18:29, Garren Smith <gar...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> I’m a bit nervous to remove the full elixir test suite. The only partition
> tests are in the elixir suite. So we would have no test coverage for any of
> that if we remove this. Given that we want to make this the best CouchDB
> release ever it feels counter-intuitive to them be removing tests.
>
> I also think there is a few JS tests we have disabled because they are
> covered in Elixir so we would need to re-enable those in the same PR that we
> remove the elixir tests.
That hasn’t landed yet afaict[1]: but I suggest we get this going to create
some progress on the deprecate-js-tests train.
Best
Jan
—
[1]:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb/commit/20e7b2e0cf496c925e99c80befa8b50fd69b5017
>
> Cheers
> Garren
>
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 2:51 AM Jay Doane <jaydo...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:27 PM Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Jay, consider this a +1 to remove those if you can get to them before I
>> do.
>>>
>>
>> Joan, I don't think I was clear, but when I said
>>> I'm +1 to removing these tests temporarily.
>> by "these tests" I actually meant all the elixir tests, not just the two I
>> mentioned. I don't think we'd get very far by just disabling those two, as
>> there are many others that fail intermittently as well. I'm +1 to remove
>> them, and here's a PR in case someone wants it to happen sooner rather than
>> later:
>>
>> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/2362
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jay
>>
>>>
>>> If this makes the Elixir tests useful again, then it's a good compromise.
>>>
>>> -Joan
>>>
>>> On 2019-12-13 2:18 a.m., Jay Doane wrote:
>>>> I've been trying to merge into master for the last 24+ hours, and have
>>>> restarted the build about 10 times so far, but it has yet to pass.
>>>>
>>>> I kept track of failures, and these came up numerous times:
>>>>
>>>> 1) test GET /dbname/_design_docs (PartitionDDocTest)
>>>> test/elixir/test/partition_ddoc_test.exs:160
>>>> ** (RuntimeError) timed out after 10294 ms
>>>> code: retry_until(
>>>> stacktrace:
>>>> (couchdbtest) test/elixir/lib/couch/db_test.ex:301:
>>>> Couch.DBTest.retry_until/4
>>>> test/elixir/test/partition_ddoc_test.exs:163: (test)
>>>>
>>>> 1) test All Docs tests (AllDocsTest)
>>>> test/elixir/test/all_docs_test.exs:15
>>>> ** (RuntimeError) timed out after 30097 ms
>>>> code: retry_until(fn ->
>>>> stacktrace:
>>>> (couchdbtest) test/elixir/lib/couch/db_test.ex:301:
>>>> Couch.DBTest.retry_until/4
>>>> test/elixir/test/all_docs_test.exs:75: (test)
>>>>
>>>> which both seem to be timing out.
>>>>
>>>> I'm +1 to removing these tests temporarily.
>>>>
>>>> Jay
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:39 PM Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>
>>>>> As I've been looking more closely at the CI suite for the Jenkins
>>>>> transition, I've noticed that our Elixir test cases are actually the
>>>>> most likely to fail. In 6 consecutive CI runs, 5 runs failed due to
>>>>> failures in the Elixir suite. (The 6th failed due to a JS test
>> failure.)
>>>>>
>>>>> We started the Elixir effort to retire the JS suite. We reached a
>>>>> decision some months ago to put it into `make check` so that people
>>>>> would pay attention to its output, and work to fix those tests,
>>>>> accelerating our chances to get rid of the JS suite.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, that's not materialised. Our Elixir test porters seem
>> to
>>>>> have stopped their work for a while now, and no one is systematically
>>>>> addressing the failures in that suite. I've also heard other
>> developers
>>>>> mention (via IRC) that some of the test cases hold invalid assumptions
>>>>> about how CouchDB works, especially with the Erlang-based clustering
>>>>> code. It sounds to me like the effort needs a full code review.
>>>>>
>>>>> With 3.0 around the corner, I want people to be able to trust the
>> output
>>>>> of `make check` when downloading the tarball. If there is no
>> objection,
>>>>> when I merge the Erlang version / CI changes on Monday, I will also
>>>>> comment out the call to `make elixir` as part of make check.
>>>>>
>>>>> When the Elixir porting team is more confident in the reliability and
>>>>> completeness of their work, and we can successfully retire the JS
>> suite,
>>>>> we can reconsider.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Joan "really wanting to see green, but only seeing red" Touzet
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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