Re: Failed Dtest will block cutting releases

2016-12-04 Thread Benjamin Roth
Sorry for jumping in so boldly before. TL;DR: - I didn't mean to delete every flaky test just like that - To improve quality, each failing test has to be analyzed individually for release More thoughts on that: I had a closer look on some of the tests tagged as flaky and realized that

Re: Failed Dtest will block cutting releases

2016-12-04 Thread Michael Shuler
Thanks for your thoughts on testing Apache Cassandra, I share them. I just wanted to note that the known_failure() annotations were recently removed from cassandra-dtest [0], due to lack of annotation removal when bugs fixed, and the internal webapp that we were using to parse has been broken for

Re: Failed Dtest will block cutting releases

2016-12-04 Thread Benjamin Roth
Hi Michael, Thanks for this update. As a newbie it helped me to understand the organization and processes a little bit better. I don't know how many CS-devs know this but I love this rule (actually the whole book): http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/The_Boy_Scout_Rule I person