Comment by devin
16 hours ago
Are you joking? This is the kind of thing that leads to flaky tests. I was always counseled against the use of randomness in my tests, unless we're talking generative testing like quickcheck.
16 hours ago
Are you joking? This is the kind of thing that leads to flaky tests. I was always counseled against the use of randomness in my tests, unless we're talking generative testing like quickcheck.
or, maybe, there is something hugely wrong with your code, review pipeline or tests if adding randomness to unit test values makes your tests flaky and this is a good way to find it
or, maybe, it signals insufficient thought about the boundary conditions that should or shouldn't trigger test failures.
doing random things to hopefully get a failure is fine if there's an actual purpose to it, but putting random values all over the place in the hopes it reveals a problem in your CI pipeline or something seems like a real weak reason to do it.
I don't think anyone is advocating for random application of randomness.
`today` is random.
If "today" were random, our universe would be pretty fricken weird.
It's dynamic, but it certainly isn't random, considering it follows a consistent sequence