Many of our flaky tests are flaky because they use AvailablePort or AvailablePortHelper to find randomly available ports. They then later fail with a BindException because the port is already in use by the time the test uses it.
Here's a proposal for a temporary fix: The module geode-junit contains a JUnit 4 rule called RetryRule. We could modify RetryRule to only retry if a BindException (or configurable exception/s) is detected. This rule would then be dropped into every test that uses AvailablePort or AvailablePortHelper. Then if the test fails with a BindException, it would automatically retry (once or twice or whatever we decide to configure RetryRule with). If the test fails without any detected BindException, then it would just fail without retrying. Opinions on this? Thanks, Kirk
