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Posted to dev@flink.apache.org by "Till Rohrmann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2015/02/05 15:23:34 UTC

[jira] [Created] (FLINK-1481) Flakey JobManagerITCase

Till Rohrmann created FLINK-1481:
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             Summary: Flakey JobManagerITCase
                 Key: FLINK-1481
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1481
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Till Rohrmann
            Priority: Minor


We currently have some test cases which rely on non-deterministic behaviour. For example the {{JobManagerItCase}} contains a test case with a {{SometimesExceptionSender}} which randomly throws an exception and otherwise blocks. The probability of a failure is 0.05 and we have 100 parallel tasks. Thus, the overall probability that no task fails at all is still 0.005. Thus every 200th test run, the test case will block and thus fail.

In order to get a stable test case base, I think that we should try to avoid these kind of test cases with random behaviour. The same goes with sleep timeouts in order to "establish" an intended interleaving of concurrent processes. With Travis this can fail too often.



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