[CASSANDRA-16654] Junit RepeatableRunner flaky tests helper

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.25, 3.11.11, 4.0-rc2, 4.0, 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Test/unit
• Bug Category: Code
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: Unit Test
• Platform: All
• Since Version: 3.0.0

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/fdabda1da849efdb2f0066a341b9cc24de7fd05c

Test and Documentation Plan

If can be tested by trying to run DirectoriesTest a few times i.e.

• Assignee: Berenguer Blasi
• Reporter: Berenguer Blasi

Authors

Andres de la Peña, Berenguer Blasi

Reviewers

Andres de la Peña

• Created: 05/May/21 09:06
• Updated: 27/May/22 19:25
• Resolved: 18/May/21 04:47

Description

Some flakies only fail when the full suite is ran. If it's a quick test you can do thousands of runs if a few seconds. Looping at the sh level is not an option as every loop takes a few seconds.

As I have found this very useful I am proposing committing it

Issue Links

• is a child of: CASSANDRA-16625 Add a CircleCI job to run some tests repeatedly
• is a child of: CASSANDRA-16627 Flaky DirectoriesTest.testSecondaryIndexDirectories
• links to: CASSANDRA-16654 PR 3.0
• links to: CASSANDRA-16654 PR 3.11
• links to: CASSANDRA-16654 PR 4.0
• links to: CASSANDRA-16654 PR trunk