Fix flaky TestSendCustomMessagePendingError #292
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I'm not entirely sure this is the correct way to test this, so any feedback is appreciated cc @andykellr
The flake is easy to reproduce currently with
go test -run=TestSendCustomMessagePendingError -count=1000 -race
.After this fix, I've given it >25k runs and didn't manage to get any failures at all.
Background
The flakiness in
TestSendCustomMessagePendingError
was due to the fact that the second call toSendCustomMessage
was often not fast enough to trigger the condition, giving the first call to c.sender.ScheduleSend() enough time for a message to be sent and clearing the previous CustomMessage from the sender's first queued message in the process.Solution
Without going deeper to add explicit synchronization, I think that delaying the start to the server can guarantee that no messages are sent out at the beginning, and starting it up later is stil valid for the rest of the assertions
Fixes #278