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> But how do you test concurrency issues due to timing?

You don't.

1) The outcome of the tests will be: 0.1% There is an issue. 99.9% Maybe there's an issue.

2) Finding concurrency issues needs fine-grained targeting. You can't just write a "does anything race?" test. Testing won't reveal the location of the races. You already need to know about the race condition to be able to write a test for it. And once you know it's there, what are you testing? Are you making sure that the system does the wrong thing?




I meant more concrete cases.

Say there is some weird behaviour and you suspect that it's due to a race condition. Maybe someone forgot to do "select for update" and you want to write a test to confirm. How to do that?

Even if you know 100% that it's a race condition, you still might want to add a test to prevent it from happening again no?


> And once you know it's there, what are you testing?

That you've fixed it.




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