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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Alexander Sack <asac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Olivier Tilloy
> <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Didier Roche <didrocks@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> notes_app (Bill):
> >>
> >>
> http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/touch/mako/112:20140105:20131223.2/5882/notes-app-autopilot/638428/
> >
> >
> > This test fails very early on (in setUp), waiting for the toolbar to
> close.
> > I suspect the app wasn’t started properly somehow. I’ve seen similar
> > failures in other apps, but it’s pretty rare and always random. In any
> case
> > I’m pretty sure this specific test isn’t to blame.
> > In such situations, a screencast of the test run would help a lot in
> > understanding what happened.
>
> From what I know, we have cameras in our lab that would allow you to
> watch the device under testing live. Would that help? CCed a few CI
> folks to help if needed.
>

Yes, that would help, provided we manage to capture one of those failures,
which is not gonna be easy as they are rather rare and apparently random.


Also: have we tried reproducing this using the emulator?
>

Not yet, but that’s something I’ll try if the failure happens again.