RFR(T) : 8241707 : introduce randomness k/w to hotspot test suite

[mikhailo.seledtsov at oracle.com]

Looks good,

Misha

On 4/7/20 1:26 PM, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev//8241707/webrev.00
>> 5 lines changed: 2 ins; 0 del; 3 mod;
> Hi all,
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> could you please review this small and trivial patch which adds "randomness" k/w into hotspot test suite and marks one testlibrary(/shared/common/sanity) test w/ this k/w?
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> other tests are to be updated by other subtasks of 8241623[*]. the end goal of this activity is to improve reproducibility of hotspot test suite and mark all the tests whose behavior might vary from run to run (for the reasons unrelated to the product) w/ "randomness" k/w so it will be easier to identify such tests and be more cautious when they fail and/or are used for fix verification.
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> from JBS:
>> introduce 'randomness' k/w to mark tests which may vary from run to run due to usage of (pseudo)random. it's important to mention that the same k/w is used w/ the exact same meaning in the jdk test suite, so this will also further reduce differences b/w these two test bases.
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>> this is just a preparation state, the actual marking will be done by other sub-tasks of JDK-8241623 (most probably component-by-component).
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> [*] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8241623
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8241707
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev//8241707/webrev.00
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> Thanks,
> -- Igor
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