Re: automated testing comment [Re: time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb?]

Doug Evans
2014-09-23T14:48:49Z

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Jan Kratochvil
<jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> And sure deploying automated testing with the current GDB testsuite as is
> would not work now automatically as the testsuite has fuzzy results. Although
> at least running new testcases (from the patch under review) would work which
> would be sufficient in this case (but not in other cases - regression cases).

Sometimes tests are flaky and one isn't aware of it, and not
everything gets caught by patch review.

IWBN if automated testing reran everything failing test N times (10?)
and reported those results as something like "fail" (always failed) or
"flaky" (inconsistent).