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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Prove "Tests out of sequence" Error
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 04:20:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161021082035.xad6wfny5i6wtshh@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZo3LdcRmrjQTAvgx=H6U2tdjASK3qv5A2K5J2HQ2NvSw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:10:39PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> > on TravisCI I see these weird "Tests out of sequence" errors with prove
> > and they seem to not go away. I assume the reason that they not go away
> > is that the ".prove" file is carried over from on build to another (but I can't
> > look into this file on TravisCI).
> >
> > Has anyone an idea where these errors might come from?
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > t5547-push-quarantine.sh                         (Wstat: 0 Tests: 5 Failed: 0)
> 
> push quarantine is a new thing made by Jeff 2 weeks ago, IIRC.

Yes, but I do not see how it can trigger this:

> >   Parse errors: Tests out of sequence.  Found (2) but expected (3)
> >                 Tests out of sequence.  Found (3) but expected (4)
> >                 Tests out of sequence.  Found (4) but expected (5)
> >                 Bad plan.  You planned 4 tests but ran 5.

The TAP output from one of our tests should look something like:

  ok 1 - subject one
  ok 2 - subject two
  ok 3 - subject three
  ok 4 - subject four
  # passed all 4 test(s)
  1..4

the "plan" is the bit at the end. That looks like $test_count
accidentally got incremented by one and we generated something like:

  ok 1 - subject one
  ok 3 - subject two
  ok 4 - subject three
  ok 5 - subject four
  1..4

which would explain the "out of sequence" errors as well as the "planned
4 but ran 5".

But I do not see how the test script could screw that up. The counting
is handled entirely by the harness in test-lib.sh.

Nor do I see how a stale .prove file could matter. It does not store
information about the test plan at all. E.g., here is the entry from
mine for t5547:

  t5547-push-quarantine.sh:
    elapsed: 0.0762169361114502
    gen: 1
    last_pass_time: 1477037708.741
    last_result: 0
    last_run_time: 1477037708.741
    last_todo: 0
    seq: 437
    total_passes: 1

Puzzling.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-21  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-21  4:14 Prove "Tests out of sequence" Error Lars Schneider
2016-10-21  6:10 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-21  8:20   ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-10-21  8:43     ` Jeff King
2016-10-21 10:41       ` [PATCH 0/3] fix travis TAP/--verbose conflict Jeff King
2016-10-21 10:42         ` [PATCH 1/3] test-lib: handle TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY with spaces Jeff King
2016-10-21 10:48         ` [PATCH 2/3] test-lib: add --verbose-log option Jeff King
2016-10-21 17:12           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-21 21:46             ` Jeff King
2021-02-28 20:25           ` [PATCH/RFC] test-lib: make --verbose work under prove Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-01  9:51             ` Jeff King
2021-03-01 13:54               ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [PATCH 0/6 + 1] test-lib: make --verbose output valid TAP Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 17:52                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-03-09 21:03                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 22:07                       ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [PATCH 1/7] test-lib: remove test_external Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-10  1:04                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-10  2:22                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [PATCH 2/7] test-lib: add say_color_tap helper to emit TAP format Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-10  0:39                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [PATCH 3/7] test-lib: color "ok" TAP directives green under --verbose (or -x) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [PATCH 4/7] test-lib: add tee with TAP support to test-tool Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [PATCH 5/7] test-lib: indent and format GIT_TEST_TEE_OUTPUT_FILE code Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [PATCH 6/7] test-lib: make --verbose output valid TAP Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 18:59                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-03-09 20:57                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 21:31                       ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-03-10  2:35                         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-16  9:10                           ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-09 19:12                   ` SZEDER Gábor
2021-03-10  1:11                   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-03-10  7:42                   ` Chris Torek
2021-03-09 16:02                 ` [RFC/PATCH 7/7] test-lib: generate JUnit output via TAP Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-19 14:14                   ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-03-21  0:28                     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-22 13:46                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-10-21 10:48         ` [PATCH 3/3] travis: use --verbose-log test option Jeff King
2016-10-21 17:19         ` [PATCH 0/3] fix travis TAP/--verbose conflict Stefan Beller
2016-10-24 18:06         ` Lars Schneider
2016-10-21 15:29       ` Prove "Tests out of sequence" Error Jacob Keller
2016-10-21 15:35         ` Jeff King
2016-10-21 15:42           ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-21 15:48             ` Jeff King
2016-10-21 16:15               ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-22  4:45                 ` [PATCH 4/3] test-lib: bail out when "-v" used under "prove" Jeff King
2016-10-22  5:25                   ` Jacob Keller

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