Bad test creates unwanted noise?

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 07:37:16AM -0500, Nir Soffer wrote:
> Hi infra,
> 
> Build failed today because of unrelated test:
> http://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/vdsm_unit_tests_gerrit/5902/console
> 
> AlignmentScanTests
>     test_aligned_image                                          ERROR
>     test_bad_path                                               OK
>     test_help_response                                          OK
>     test_nonaligned_image                                       ERROR
> 
> This is not the first time I see these tests fail randomly. The issue may be either bad 
> code or bad test failing randomly.
> 
> I suggest to exclude these tests until the issue is resolved.

Do you know if the random failures are limited to Jenkins slaves? If
not, and you cannot find the root cause, you can decorate the test with
@brokentest("explanation about what's broken here and why it is not
fixed right now").