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Thursday, May 12 • 9:00am - 9:50am
Flaky Tests and Bugs in Apache Softwares (e.g. Hadoop) - Akihiro Suda, NTT Corp.

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Apache softwares are well tested.
Each of them has as many LOC of xUnit test codes as production codes, and the test codes are run frequently on Apache Buildbot.

However, unfortunately these xUnit tests tend to be "flaky". i.e. they can fail non-deterministically.
Even when tests are flaky on Buildbot, it is hard to debug for developers because failure cannot be reproduced by just running tests repeatedly.
So flaky tests can be a very troublesome threat for quality assuarance of Apache softwares.

In this presentation, Akihiro Suda will show the "flakiness" of several Apache softwares (e.g. Hadoop), and discuss why they are so flaky.

Additionally, he will also introduce his open-source debugging tool, named "Earthquake".
This tool can easily reproduce failures of flaky tests by increasing the non-deternimism of the thread scheduling for unmodified xUnit tests.

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Akihiro Suda

Software Engineer, NTT Corporation
Akihiro Suda is a software engineer at NTT Corporation, a Japan-based telecommunication company. He has been a maintainer of several opensource container software such as Moby, BuildKit, containerd, runc, and Lima. He has previously talked at several FLOSS conferences such as KubeCon... Read More →



Thursday May 12, 2016 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
Regency C

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