0016203: Issue History tests randomly fail

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0016203	mantisbt	tools	public	2013-07-22 06:27	2014-02-07 18:24

Reporter	dregad	Assigned To	dregad
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	random
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	1.2.16
Target Version	1.2.16	Fixed in Version	1.2.16

Summary	0016203: Issue History tests randomly fail
Description	When running this individual test case, it works most of the time, but I occasionally get a failure despite no changes in the code.
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MantisBT: master-1.2.x 056eb949 2013-07-22 03:02 dregad Details Diff	IssueHistoryTest: fix random failure with simultaneous entries This happens when history entries are created in rapid sequence (i.e. within the same second), and the RDBMS then returns the records in random order. Since the tests rely on a fixed order of the entries, this occasionally causes failures. Fixes 0016203	Affected Issues 0016203
	mod - tests/soap/IssueHistoryTest.php	Diff File
MantisBT: master 77fa9a5d 2013-07-22 09:02 dregad Details Diff	IssueHistoryTest: fix random failure with simultaneous entries This happens when history entries are created in rapid sequence (i.e. within the same second), and the RDBMS then returns the records in random order. Since the tests rely on a fixed order of the entries, this occasionally causes failures. Fixes 0016203	Affected Issues 0016203
	mod - tests/soap/IssueHistoryTest.php	Diff File

dregad 2013-07-22 06:32 developer ~0037505	This is apparently caused when history entries are created in rapid sequence (i.e. within the same second), and the RDBMS then returns the records in random order. Since the tests rely on a fixed order of the entries, this causes false failures.