Re: flaky tests & scaled timeouts

2015-05-28 Thread Reynold Xin
My understanding is that it is good to have this, but a large fraction of flaky tests are actually also race conditions, etc. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Imran Rashid wrote: > Hi, > > I was just fixing a problem with too short a timeout on one of the unit > tests I added (https://issues.a

flaky tests & scaled timeouts

2015-05-28 Thread Imran Rashid
Hi, I was just fixing a problem with too short a timeout on one of the unit tests I added (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-7919), and I was wondering if this is a common problem w/ a lot of our flaky tests. Its really hard to know what to set the timeouts to -- you set the timeout so