I'm +1 on using @Retry instead of fixed seed.

2011/5/16 Dr. Dietmar Wolz <drdietmarw...@yahoo.de>:
> Nikolaus Hansen, Luc and me discussed this issue in Toulouse.
> We have two options to handle this kind of failure in tests of stochastic
> optimization algorithms:
> 1) fixed random seed - but this reduces  the value of the test
> 2) Using the RetryRunner - preferred solution
>
> @Retry(3) should be sufficient for all tests.
>
> Shall I prepare a patch?
>
>> @RunWith(RetryRunner.class) before the corresponding test class and by
> adding the annotation @Retry(n) with any some > small integer, say 3 to 5
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Luc Maisonobe [mailto:luc.maison...@free.fr]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2011 10:40
> An: Commons Developers List
> Betreff: [math] [GUMP@vmgump]: Project commons-math (in module
> apache-commons) failed
>
> Le 28/04/2011 00:43, Gump a écrit :
>> To whom it may engage...
>>
>> This is an automated request, but not an unsolicited one. For more
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>> Project commons-math has an issue affecting its community integration.
>> This issue affects 1 projects,
>>  and has been outstanding for 7 runs.
>> The current state of this project is 'Failed', with reason 'Build Failed'.
>> For reference only, the following projects are affected by this:
>>     - commons-math :  The Jakarta Mathematics Library
>>
>>
>> Full details are available at:
>>
>> http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/apache-commons/commons-math/index
>> .html
>
> Hi all,
>
> Once again, the failure is due to some tests in CMA-ES.
> The output of the failed test is here:
> <http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/apache-commons/commons-math/gump_file/
> TEST-org.apache.commons.math.optimization.direct.CMAESOptimizerTest.txt.html
>>.
>
> Dietmar, could you check this and tell if the test failure is expected or
> not ? If the test should fail once every few runs (typically due to some
> random drawings within the test), we have a way to handle such failures in
> the automatic tests. We run the tests that may fail a few times to make sure
> we can separate random failures from systematic failures.
>
> The way we do this is by adding the annotation
> @RunWith(RetryRunner.class) before the corresponding test class and by
> adding the annotation @Retry(n) with any some small integer, say 3 to 5,
> before the test method (in addition to the classical JUnit @Test
> annotation). The number n is the number of retries we allow before declaring
> the test systematically failed.
>
> Could you have a look at this ?
>
> thanks
> Luc
>
>>
>> That said, some information snippets are provided here.
>>
>> The following annotations (debug/informational/warning/error messages)
> were provided:
>>  -DEBUG- Sole jar output [commons-math-28042011.jar] identifier set to
>> project name
>>  -DEBUG- Dependency on junit exists, no need to add for property
> junit.jar.
>>  -INFO- Failed with reason build failed
>>  -INFO- Project Reports in:
>> /srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-commons/math/target/surefire-reports
>>  -WARNING- No directory
>> [/srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-commons/math/target/surefire-report
>> s]
>>  -INFO- Project Reports in:
>> /srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-commons/math/target/test-reports
>>  -INFO- Failed to extract fallback artifacts from Gump Repository
>>
>>
>>
>> The following work was performed:
>> http://vmgump.apache.org/gump/public/apache-commons/commons-math/gump_
>> work/build_apache-commons_commons-math.html
>> Work Name: build_apache-commons_commons-math (Type: Build) Work ended
>> in a state of : Failed
>> Elapsed: 5 mins 18 secs
>> Command Line: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java
>> -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dbuild.sysclasspath=only
>> -Xbootclasspath/p:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-xerces2/build/xercesI
>> mpl.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-commons/java/external/build/xml
>> -apis.jar org.apache.tools.ant.Main
>> -Dgump.merge=/srv/gump/public/gump/work/merge.xml
>> -Djunit.jar=/srv/gump/public/workspace/junit/dist/junit-28042011.jar
>> -Dfinal.name=commons-math-28042011 jar [Working Directory:
>> /srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-commons/math]
>> CLASSPATH:
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib/tools.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/a
>> pache-commons/math/target/classes:/srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-co
>> mmons/math/target/test-classes:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib
>> /ant.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/srv
>> /gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-jmf.jar:/srv/gump/public/works
>> pace/ant/dist/lib/ant-junit.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/li
>> b/ant-swing.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-apache-res
>> olver.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ant/dist/lib/ant-apache-xalan2.ja
>> r:/srv/gump/packages/junit3.8.1/junit.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/x
>> ml-commons/java/build/resolver.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/xml-comm
>> ons/java/external/build/xml-apis-ext.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/ju
>> nit/dist/junit-28042011.jar:/srv/gump/public/workspace/junit/dist/juni
>> t-dep-28042011.jar
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>     [junit] Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.17 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.stat.ranking.NaturalRankingTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 7, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.157 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression.GLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 21, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 1.064 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression.OLSMultipleLinearRegressionTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 19, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.295 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.stat.regression.SimpleRegressionTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 16, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.202 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.transform.FastCosineTransformerTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.155 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.transform.FastFourierTransformerTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 4, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.178 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.transform.FastHadamardTransformerTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 4, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.153 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.transform.FastSineTransformerTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.173 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.BigRealFieldTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.03 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.BigRealTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 10, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.064 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.ContinuedFractionTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.136 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.DefaultTransformerTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 7, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.041 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.util.FastMathStrictComparisonTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 53, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.481 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.FastMathTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 35, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 15.605
> sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.IncrementorTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.026 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.MathUtilsTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 73, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 1.918 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.util.MultidimensionalCounterTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.17 sec
>>     [junit] Running
> org.apache.commons.math.util.OpenIntToDoubleHashMapTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 17, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.423 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.OpenIntToFieldTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 17, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.274 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.PairTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.016 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.ResizableDoubleArrayTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 14, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.202 sec
>>     [junit] Running org.apache.commons.math.util.TransformerMapTest
>>     [junit] Tests run: 8, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 0.039
>> sec
>>
>> BUILD FAILED
>> /srv/gump/public/workspace/apache-commons/math/build.xml:214: There were
> test failures.
>>
>> Total time: 5 minutes 18 seconds
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