Hi Kris,

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 22:11 -0400, Kris Van Hees wrote:
> I'd like to propose that the TestLeakingFileDescriptor test cases be marked
> as stress tests rather than regular tests, to avoid them being executed at
> every testsuite invocation.  Reason for this proposal is two-fold: first of
> all, these tests are implicitly intermittent due to the fact that they depend
> on a behaviour that is not deterministic (the garbage collector does not
> actually do I/O resource mangement), and secondly, when they do fail they tend
> to cause a bunch of side effects (causing later tests to fail, causing daemon
> instances of TestRunner to never get torn down, ...).

I think that is a good idea since the test results are pretty flaky as
they are now making comparing test runs pretty hard. I known good set of
tests that always PASS and that you don't have to second guess would be
really helpful. Only issue I can see is that if the stress tests are
optional people will never run them, but I guess that is what the
autobuilder/tester is for.

Cheers,

Mark