Bad test creates unwanted noise?

[Nir Soffer]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 3:17:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Bad test creates unwanted noise?
> 
> 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?

I happens on my hosts from time to time, and now also on jenkins.

It would be nice if jenkins would send email to the author of the failing 
tests. Either the test is bad and you wont to fix it, or someone else broke
your test and you want to "fix" someone :-)