TestDUChain::testImportStructure() randomness

David Nolden zwabel+kde at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 17:13:41 UTC 2008


On Thursday 05 June 2008 18:47:13 Manuel Breugelmans wrote:
> I observed odd behaviour for this test command. It would pass when running
> the full duchain test case but fail when run in isolation. Whats more,
> always on the exact same cycle+sub-cycles. Not sure if this on purpose (to
> make it a bit reproducable) but there's no call to srand in there ...
> debian randomness ;)

Yep I didn't call srand() so when something fails it is reproducible.

> With proper initilization and a slightly higher cycle count (100) this test
> starts failing. I couldnt quite figure out why though, might be something
> trivial.

Ok that needs some debugging then. But it's actually a good thing, because 
I've noticed a rare problem in that area, and now know that the test can 
reproduce it.

Greetings, David




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