On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:50:43 +0000 Rob Boehne <r...@datalogics.com> wrote: > > The other thing that crept into this thread was the mention of test that > intermittently fail. > That's a huge problem because it suggests that applications will sometimes > fail. > I have usually seen these sort of issues because of > 1) Uninitialized memory being used (read) > 2) Threading problems > 3) Resources used (files, networking, daemons) but unavailable > 4) memory mis-management (buffer overrun that doesn't cause a crash) > > #3 is probably best fixed by testing for resources and skipping when > unavailable
5) Poor quality POSIX support in the target platform. The Python test suite is actually quite demanding in this regard (except on Windows). Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/CPL5PR3MDBLT65OXFEWHPFJWOWF3BO3Y/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
