tests/libcxx: Skip tests annotated ALLOW_RETRIES
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Description
Flaky libc++ tests have an // ALLOW_RETRIES: n attribute that instructs the test runner to retry the test up to n times if necessary. We don't respect this attribute for various reasons, which is fine, but we also don't treat these tests specially, which results in intermittent failures. Ideally we should filter such tests out in the test runner and simply treat them as UNSUPPORTED.
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the libc++ test runner and the handling of the ALLOW_RETRIES attribute. Check how tests are classified when this annotation is present; done means such tests are filtered out and treated as UNSUPPORTED, preventing intermittent failures.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- testing-qa
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100