On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > A lot of tests are dependent on fixed random numbers.
> >
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> (Which is not on purpose, I assume.)
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They are coded that way- a great many unit tests of stochastic things do this:
assertEquals(0.2933927293472, object.call(), EPSILON);
The user ran the test by hand and hard-coded the test to match that value.
> > Starting a new JVM per test is a non-starter on smaller machines. Can
> > single-process mode be a default with a parameter for running parallel?
> >
>
> Why? this runs fine on my laptop.
>
I'm very happy for you. (A friend's wonderful catch-all rejoinder.)
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Lance Norskog
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