[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D42656: [testsuite] Remove flakey test relying on `pexpect`

Mon Jan 29 12:45:45 PST 2018

davide added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D42656#991065, @jingham wrote:

> There are a whole bunch of other tests that test completion in this file that use the exact same mechanism but don't seem to be flakey.  Why is this one test flakey?
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> If for instance it's because "Fo" ends up being ambiguous because we chose too common a start string, then you could trivially fix the test by choosing a more uncommon name to complete on.  But I'd want to know why this test is flakey first.
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> I also don't see why you say this test doesn't test something important.  The ability to auto-complete symbol names it pretty important to command-line lldb users.  If anything we should have more tests of the symbol completer...

Apologies, I was thinking of another test (happens when there are multiple `UNEXPECTED SUCCESSES` ;)

This seems to pass pretty reliably locally. I'd go for UNXFAILING this unless there are objections.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D42656