Dmitriy,

Please, clarify the idea.
What do we want to achieve by this? Making tests more stable by hiding some
issues in our tests/codebase?


On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 6:57 PM Павлухин Иван <vololo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dmitriy,
>
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Problems related to tests isolation are
> very common in practice. And things can be complicated when order
> varies.
>
> But by the way does the order of Ignite tests vary today? Junit 4
> javadocs claims something about "default deterministic order" [1].
>
> [1] https://junit.org/junit4/javadoc/latest/org/junit/FixMethodOrder.html
>
> вт, 5 февр. 2019 г. в 17:40, Dmitriy Pavlov <dpav...@apache.org>:
> >
> > Dear Ignite Developers,
> >
> > The original idea came from our recent habr.ru post related to Apache
> > Ignite TeamCity Bot (for Russian native speakers, you can read an
> original
> > https://habr.com/ru/company/sberbank/blog/436070/#comment_19616976 )
> >
> > It is a known phenomenon when tests have an influence on each other. The
> > simplest case when Ignite Native persistence is used, and not properly
> > cleared after a test run. This can make some test failed afterward.
> >
> > So, what if we will set predictable, for example, alphabetical tests
> > execution order (maven-surefire-plugin/runOrder/alphabetical). This may
> > have the following effect: the set of tests failed because of being
> > affected by the previous run will be constant, will be exactly the same
> > each run.
> >
> > At some point, when we stabilize flaky tests enough, we may select random
> > order, but for now, this solution seems valid to me.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Dmitriy Pavlov
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ivan Pavlukhin
>

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