From: David Holroyd <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-11-09T22:21:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Checking for race conditions with Ruby threads

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:06:32PM +0900, MenTaLguY wrote:
> There's value in constructing stuff like this to show up such a bug for
> debugging, but race conditions just aren't something you can reliably
> unit test for.

With enough control over the components under test, it is often possible
to 'rig the race', such that a specific error in serialisation is forced
to occur (i.e. artificially blocking one of the threads for the duration
of the test).

(Probably not possible in this instance though.)


dave

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