In such a setup, doctest framework will need to keep a record of the
particular order, and output it for each failure. otherwise things are not
reproducible...

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:23 Simon King <simon.k...@uni-jena.de wrote:

> Hi Jeroen,
>
> On 2018-11-23, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote:
> > On 2018-11-22 18:45, 'Martin R' via sage-devel wrote:
> >> 1) would it be easy and desirable to make the patchbots run tests in
> >> random order?
> >
> > Easy: yes
> > Desirable: no, it would create a lot of doctest failures
>
> ... whose fixing is likely to make Sage run more stably. Afte all,
> doctests that fail when being executed in a different order mean that
> there are side-effects. And side-effects imply instability.
>
> So, I'd tend to believe that it is desirable.
>
> Best regards,
> Simon
>
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