rspec ./spec/models/mediaflux/http/asset_exist_request_spec.rb:15 is failing oftent in CI

[carolyncole]

What maintenance needs to be done?

We should take time to figure out why it is so flaky

It looks like there is more than one flaky test, we just noted that collection_asset_root_request also is failing intermittently.

Level of urgency

• [ ] High
• [x] Moderate
• [ ] Low

Why is this maintenance needed?

This is slowing down PRs

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] The test passes during CI constantly

[hectorcorrea]

Hey team! Please add your planning poker estimate with Zenhub @carolyncole @JaymeeH @jrgriffiniii @kelynch @leefaisonr

[carolyncole]

All the following went green after a rerun from failed: rspec ./spec/models/mediaflux/project_update_request_spec.rb:57 rspec ./spec/models/mediaflux/http/asset_exist_request_spec.rb:15 rspec ./spec/models/mediaflux/http/collection_asset_create_root_request_spec.rb:9

[bess]

Documenting more flakiness:

[carolyncole]

https://app.circleci.com/insights/github/pulibrary/tiger-data-app/workflows/build_accept_deploy/tests?branch=main contains all flaky test runs as defined by CI in the flaky section

[hectorcorrea]

@carolyncole this is great information, I didn't know CircleCI kept track of flaky tests.

PR #843 (merged a couple of hours ago) should take care of Mediaflux::Http::CollectionAssetCreateRootRequest -- if that works we can probably try to apply a similar approach to the rest.

[carolyncole]

@hectorcorrea The root namespace is cleared out before each test. You can see in a couple of the flaky tests that the namespace not existing is the reason for the failure. I'm guessing that there is some sort of error during the deletion creation https://github.com/pulibrary/tiger-data-app/blob/main/spec/support/connect_to_mediaflux.rb#L16-L24