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[Gema Gomez <gema.gomez-solano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/08/13 15:28, Francis Ginther wrote:
> I discovered a test case that fell into an infinite loop [1]. This led
> the test automation getting stuck. While this is clearly a test that
> needs to be modified, is there a clever way to prevent this in the
> general case? Putting a time limit on the jenkins job works to unstick
> the automation, but that's a very big hammer and we lose the videos
> and other artifacts. I manually intervened to collect the video for
> [1].
> 
> Any ideas short of adding a test time limit to autopilot itself?

When we run the tests with utah, utah has the required timeouts. Maybe
you could use the utah runner for this?

Gema


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