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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: automated testing comment [Re: time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb?]
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54218AD9.5050801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP9bCMS1R1S36oh77wOU6FgphGY4+Q2t-Pg20ANi2JWWYe1xYA@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/23/2014 03:48 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> 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).

Indeed.  I think that would be doable as part of gdb's own
testsuite machinery even, which would make it easily available
to every one.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-23 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-11 16:25 time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb? Doug Evans
2014-09-11 16:37 ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-12 11:55   ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-12 12:14     ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-12 12:33       ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-12 12:46         ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-17 20:10           ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-19 14:38             ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-19 14:41               ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-20 21:30                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-21 19:12                   ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-21 19:46                     ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-23 23:05                       ` Doug Evans
2014-09-26 12:09                         ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-22 18:35                     ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 11:49                       ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-28 13:41                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-29 10:36                           ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-03 13:09                             ` Gary Benson
2014-10-07 23:16                             ` Doug Evans
2014-09-23 12:05                       ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-26 12:05                       ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-23 10:59                     ` automated testing comment [Re: time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb?] Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 12:32                       ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-23 12:45                         ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 13:30                           ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-23 13:57                             ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 14:48                               ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-23 15:53                                 ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 15:56                                   ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-24 13:22                                 ` Andreas Arnez
2014-09-24 15:23                                   ` Ulrich Weigand
2014-09-25  7:11                                     ` Andreas Arnez
2014-09-25  8:20                                     ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-25 10:52                                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 14:54                           ` Doug Evans
2014-09-23 15:16                         ` Simon Marchi
2014-09-23 14:48                       ` Doug Evans
2014-09-23 14:59                         ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2014-09-20 19:50               ` time to workaround libc/13097 in fsf gdb? Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 11:18                 ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-23 13:16                   ` Gary Benson
2014-10-09 20:09                   ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-10-09 22:07                     ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-13  1:06       ` Doug Evans
2014-09-17 20:13         ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-09-23 21:35         ` Doug Evans

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