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Re-run failed test after slave death

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Description

Is there a way to re-run a test that failed during slave death? Due to the nature of the project I am working on it is possible for a test slave to be reaped by the OOM handler in Linux, and instead of rejecting that test it would be awesome if the test could instead be retried.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the distributed worker-death handling and existing test retry logic, then determine how an OOM-reaped Linux worker is reported. Done means a test affected by slave death is retried instead of rejected, with coverage for that failure path.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
distributed-systems, testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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