[lldb-dev] Test suite itself creating failures

[Richard Mitton]

Hi all,

So I was looking into why TestInferiorAssert was (still) failing on my 
machine, and it turned out the root cause was in fact that tests are not 
run in isolation; dotest.py runs multiple tests using the same LLDB 
context for each one. So if a test doesn't clean up after itself 
properly, it can cause following tests to incorrectly fail.

Is this really a good idea? Wouldn't it make more sense to make it so 
tests are always run individually, to guarantee consistent results?

-- 
Richard Mitton
richard at codersnotes.com