Attila Sasvari created OOZIE-3043:
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Summary: Run tests in deterministic order
Key: OOZIE-3043
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-3043
Project: Oozie
Issue Type: Test
Reporter: Attila Sasvari
Priority: Trivial
[maven surefire
plugin|http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html]
can be configured to run tests in a deterministic order via the {{runOrder}}.
For example:
{quote}
Supported values are "alphabetical", "reversealphabetical", "random", "hourly"
(alphabetical on even hours, reverse alphabetical on odd hours), "failedfirst",
"balanced" and "filesystem".
{quote}
Currently Oozie tests are running with the default "filesystem" setting.
Different file systems (e.g. NTFS, ext) do not provide same ordering.
Unfortunately, there are some Oozie flaky tests that do not seem independent
from each other. We also saw hard to debug test failures caused by timeouts.
It might be better to run tests in "alphabetical" order. This way ordering
would not vary from filesystem to filesystem.
(On the other hand, we should keep identifying and fixing flaky tests. To do
this, randomness could be actually a "good" thing.)
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