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Investigate flaky test test-child-process-spawnsync #2470

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joaocgreis opened this issue Aug 20, 2015 · 2 comments
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Investigate flaky test test-child-process-spawnsync #2470

joaocgreis opened this issue Aug 20, 2015 · 2 comments
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Trott commented Aug 25, 2015

If I'm understanding the test correctly, the part of the test that is flaky is actually invalid. It checks to see if the function passed to setTimeout() executes in the same second as call to spawnSync() finishes. This will not always necessarily be the case, and the test will only get flakier if more things are added to it. (There are two other test cases below the flaky one.)

There's already an assertion to confirm that the spawnSync() ends before setTimeout() runs, so I'll submit a PR to remove the check altogether rather than do something like convert the timestamps to nanoseconds since start and make sure the one set by setTimeout() is greater than the one set by spawnSync().

Trott added a commit to Trott/io.js that referenced this issue Aug 25, 2015
The test had checked that a timer fired within a period after
spawnSync() returns. The result was a test that sometimes was
flaky.

Because there's no guarantee of how long a timer will take
before running, remove the check. There is a check that the
timer runs after spawnSync() so that is sufficient.

Fixes: nodejs#2470
Trott added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 25, 2015
The test had checked that a timer fired within a period after
spawnSync() returns. The result was a test that sometimes was
flaky.

Because there's no guarantee of how long a timer will take
before running, remove the check. There is a check that the
timer runs after spawnSync() so that is sufficient.

PR-URL: #2535
Fixes: #2470
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
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Trott commented Aug 25, 2015

Fixed in 7e63eb7 / #2535

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Trott added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 26, 2015
The test had checked that a timer fired within a period after
spawnSync() returns. The result was a test that sometimes was
flaky.

Because there's no guarantee of how long a timer will take
before running, remove the check. There is a check that the
timer runs after spawnSync() so that is sufficient.

PR-URL: #2535
Fixes: #2470
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
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