10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2026

Re:10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that include... by dathinab on Monday April 20, 2026 @12:25PM (#47836556)

or, maybe, there is something hugely wrong with your code, review pipeline or tests if adding randomness to unit test values makes your tests flaky and this is a good way to find it

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Re:10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that include... by devin on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:13PM (#47838356)

or, maybe, it signals insufficient thought about the boundary conditions that should or shouldn't trigger test failures.

doing random things to hopefully get a failure is fine if there's an actual purpose to it, but putting random values all over the place in the hopes it reveals a problem in your CI pipeline or something seems like a real weak reason to do it.

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Re:10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that include... by tomjakubowski on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:21PM (#47839969)

I don't think anyone is advocating for random application of randomness.

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