Added tools for finding and purging flaky tests

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Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/7688004

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@97560 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

tools/flakiness/find_flakiness.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+"""Contains two functions that run different test cases and the same test
+case in parallel repeatedly to identify flaky tests.
+"""
+
+
+import os
+import re
+import subprocess
+import time
+
+
+# Defaults for FindShardingFlakiness().
+FF_DATA_SUFFIX = '_flakies'
+FF_SLEEP_INTERVAL = 10.0
+FF_NUM_ITERATIONS = 100
+FF_SUPERVISOR_ARGS = ['-r3', '--random-seed']
+
+# Defaults for FindUnaryFlakiness().
+FF_OUTPUT_SUFFIX = '_purges'
+FF_NUM_PROCS = 20
+FF_NUM_REPEATS = 10
+FF_TIMEOUT = 600
+
+
+def FindShardingFlakiness(test_path, data_path, supervisor_args):
+  """Finds flaky test cases by sharding and running a test for the specified
+  number of times. The data file is read at the beginning of each run to find
+  the last known counts and is overwritten at the end of each run with the new
+  counts. There is an optional sleep interval between each run so the script can
+  be killed without losing the data, useful for overnight (or weekend!) runs.
+  """
+
+  failed_tests = {}
+  # Read a previously written data file.
+  if os.path.exists(data_path):
+    data_file = open(data_path, 'r')
+    num_runs = int(data_file.readline().split(' ')[0])
+    num_passes = int(data_file.readline().split(' ')[0])
+    for line in data_file:
+      if line:
+        split_line = line.split(' -> ')
+        failed_tests[split_line[0]] = int(split_line[1])
+    data_file.close()
+  # No data file found.
+  else:
+    num_runs = 0
+    num_passes = 0
+
+  log_lines = False
+  args = ['python', '../sharding_supervisor/sharding_supervisor.py']
+  args.extend(supervisor_args + [test_path])
+  proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+
+  # Shard the test and collect failures.
+  while True:
+    line = proc.stderr.readline()
+    if not line:
+      if proc.poll() is not None:
+        break
+      continue
+    print line.rstrip()
+    if log_lines:
+      line = line.rstrip()
+      if line in failed_tests:
+        failed_tests[line] += 1
+      else:
+        failed_tests[line] = 1
+    elif line.find('FAILED TESTS:') >= 0:
+      log_lines = True
+  num_runs += 1
+  if proc.returncode == 0:
+    num_passes += 1
+
+  # Write the data file and print results.
+  data_file = open(data_path, 'w')
+  print '%i runs' % num_runs
+  data_file.write('%i runs\n' % num_runs)
+  print '%i passes' % num_passes
+  data_file.write('%i passes\n' % num_passes)
+  for (test, count) in failed_tests.iteritems():
+    print '%s -> %i' % (test, count)
+    data_file.write('%s -> %i\n' % (test, count))
+  data_file.close()
+
+
+def FindUnaryFlakiness(test_path, output_path, num_procs, num_repeats, timeout):
+  """Runs all the test cases in a given test in parallel with itself, to get at
+  those that hold on to shared resources. The idea is that if a test uses a
+  unary resource, then running many instances of this test will purge out some
+  of them as failures or timeouts.
+  """
+
+  test_name_regex = r'((\w+/)?\w+\.\w+(/\d+)?)'
+  test_start = re.compile('\[\s+RUN\s+\] ' + test_name_regex)
+  test_list = []
+
+  # Run the test to discover all the test cases.
+  proc = subprocess.Popen([test_path], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+  while True:
+    line = proc.stdout.readline()
+    if not line:
+      if proc.poll() is not None:
+        break
+      continue
+    print line.rstrip()
+    results = test_start.search(line)
+    if results:
+      test_list.append(results.group(1))
+
+  failures = []
+  index = 0
+  total = len(test_list)
+
+  # Run each test case in parallel with itself.
+  for test_name in test_list:
+    num_fails = 0
+    num_terminated = 0
+    procs = []
+    args = [test_path, '--gtest_filter=' + test_name,
+            '--gtest_repeat=%i' % num_repeats]
+    while len(procs) < num_procs:
+      procs.append(subprocess.Popen(args))
+    seconds = 0
+    while procs:
+      for proc in procs:
+        if proc.poll() is not None:
+          if proc.returncode != 0:
+            ++num_fails
+          procs.remove(proc)
+      # Timeout exceeded, kill the remaining processes and make a note.
+      if seconds > timeout:
+        num_fails += len(procs)
+        num_terminated = len(procs)
+        while procs:
+          procs.pop().terminate()
+      time.sleep(1.0)
+      seconds += 1
+    if num_fails:
+      line = '%s: %i failed' % (test_name, num_fails)
+      if num_terminated:
+        line += ' (%i terminated)' % num_terminated
+      failures.append(line)
+    print '%s (%i / %i): %i failed' % (test_name, index, total, num_fails)
+    index += 1
+    time.sleep(1.0)
+
+  # Print the results and write the data file.
+  print failures
+  data_file = open(output_path, 'w')
+  for line in failures:
+    data_file.write(line + '\n')
+  data_file.close()
+
+
+def main():
+  if not args:
+    parser.error('You must specify a path to test!')
+  if not os.path.exists(args[0]):
+    parser.error('%s does not exist!' % args[0])
+
+  data_path = os.path.basename(args[0]) + FF_DATA_SUFFIX
+  output_path = os.path.basename(args[0]) + FF_OUTPUT_SUFFIX
+
+  for i in range(FF_NUM_ITERATIONS):
+    FindShardingFlakiness(args[0], data_path, FF_SUPERVISOR_ARGS)
+    print 'That was just iteration %i of %i.' % (i + 1, FF_NUM_ITERATIONS)
+    time.sleep(FF_SLEEP_INTERVAL)
+
+  FindUnaryFlakiness(
+      args[0], output_path, FF_NUM_PROCS, FF_NUM_REPEATS, FF_TIMEOUT)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  main()