Yes, I'm still working on JMXMBeanReconnectDUnitTest. The test fails
intermittently due to a couple product bugs that the test found. I've filed
separate tickets for these bugs and I expect the test's flakiness to be
fixed when the bugs have been addressed.

-Kirk

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 2:57 PM Alexander Murmann <amurm...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just like Mark did two weeks ago, I'd like to bring some attention to our
> mass test runs. These now run in the pipeline
> <
> https://concourse.apachegeode-ci.info/teams/main/pipelines/apache-develop-mass-test-run
> >
> once a week. The results should typically be available on Tuesdays.
>
> *Context*
> Some context since we only recently started running these in our pipeline:
> In the past we've seen the number of flaky tests, in particular among our
> DUnite tests, grow over time. This would eventually lead to death by
> thousand paper cuts when trying to merge a PR. The increased noise in our
> test suite also gives room for new signals about actual bugs to hide in. In
> past efforts to combat the flakiness of our test suite we have found that
> running the tests many times against a non-broken SHA gave us great data to
> identify which tests contribute most flakiness to the test suite.
>
> *How does this week look?*
> This week
> <
> https://concourse.apachegeode-ci.info/teams/main/pipelines/apache-develop-mass-test-run/jobs/create-mass-test-run-report/builds/8
> >
> doesn't look much different than last week. We got a 78% pass-rate
>
> The test with the single highest fail rate
> remains org.apache.geode.management.JMXMBeanReconnectDUnitTest with a fail
> rate of 4.5%. I believe Kirk had been working on this for a prolonged time.
> Kirk, is this still on your radar?
>
> The other big issue remains a cluster of issues around WAN Gateway that
> caused 18 of the total 44 failures we saw in our 200 runs
> I believe the WAN test issues got introduced fairly recently by GEODE-7458.
>
> If we got just the JMXMBean issue and the WAN tests addressed, our fail
> rate should go back to well above 90% which would be a big win
>

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