[GitHub] geode issue #306: [GEODE-2191] Test randomized string serialization/deserial...

[galen-pivotal <gi...@git.apache.org>]

Github user galen-pivotal commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/geode/pull/306
  
    @kirklund I disagree. We expect string serialization to work reliably on *all* inputs, and since we can't test all of them, we may as well test a bunch picked at random. If we fail, it's because of a corner case we haven't thought of. I would rather catch it randomly in testing than when a customer wants to store strings we hadn't anticipated. The seed is captured and printed so that we can reproduce the failure.
    
    There are cases where random input could show deficiencies in our test or testing environment rather than in the code under test; I don't think this is one of those.


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