Doh.  I didn't click through to your gist before I replied.  It looks like
you've already identified the problematic test, so most of what I posted
will be of no use to you.  :(

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm working on fixing up a module and I've written a test that triggers
> the bug against Puppet 2.7.x.  I'm running into a problem where I get 0
> failures when I run `rake test` or `rspec --format d spec/` but I get the
> failure I'm expecting if I run the spec file directly with
> rspec spec/unit/application/describe_spec.rb
>
> Here's the gist of what's going on:
>
> https://gist.github.com/2410088
>
> The code in question is:
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/jeffmccune/puppetlabs-mount-providers/tree/ticket/master/13070_fix_mounttab
>
> And Puppet 2.7.x
>
> What is a common case for this type of order dependent false positive, and
> what are some strategies I can employ to be a bit more defensive about the
> context my test is running in?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jeff
>
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