+1 On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:39 AM Joshua McKenzie <jmcken...@apache.org> wrote: > > (Taking #cassandra-dev slack chat to here) > > For context, we have a long history of an ebb and flow of flaky test > failures building up and getting burned down, but don't really have a > workflow or discipline around having a clean snapshot of where we are or > attempting to stay at some kind of steady state. We have thousands of tests > executing in a wide variety of environments: this state is to be expected, > but I argue needs to be actively managed so we don't get into the kind of > situation we did with 4.0 again. > > I threw together a couple of JIRA queries that paint a pretty navigable > picture IMO: > > Total JIRA for test failures: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12350869&jql=project%20%3D%20Cassandra%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20unresolved%20AND%20(summary%20~%20flaky%20OR%20summary%20~%20test%20OR%20component%20%3D%20%22Test%2Funit%22)%20AND%20type%20%3D%20bug%20AND%20issuekey%20not%20in%20(CASSANDRA-16010%2C%20CASSANDRA-16024%2C%20CASSANDRA-16022%2C%20CASSANDRA-16021%2C%20CASSANDRA-16025%2C%20CASSANDRA-16023)%20AND%20summary%20!~%20hardening%20ORDER%20BY%20cf%5B12313825%5D%20ASC > (sorry for the URL) - 112 failures > > # of failures more recent than 6 months: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12350869 > 10 failures. > > In the interest of tidying this up and staying on top of it going forward, > I propose the following: > 1. We close as won't fix all test failures created >= 6 months ago (We had > a big push for 4.0 and a lot of this JIRA content is stale) > 2. We switch the "Bug Category" for these 10 more recent to "Correctness - > Test Failure" > 3. We document a "canonical" workflow around test failures that links to a > saved JIRA filter query that includes: > 4. When you're working on something and you see a test failure that isn't > related to your patch, check that filter, see if the test name is there, > and if not create a new ticket w/that Bug Category > > In theory this should give us a single source of truth for documented test > failures as well as an entry point for new contributors. > > Thoughts? > > ~Josh
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