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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:00:45 +1100
Subject: Re: Score one for unit testing.
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On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> We've got a test that's been running fine ever since it was written a
> month or so ago.  Now, it's failing intermittently on our CI (continuous
> integration) box, so I took a look.

I recommend you solve these problems the way these folks did:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Productive-Testing.aspx

ChrisA