CppunitTest: different results depending on execution command

[Xisco Fauli]

Hello,

Setting the redline author back to 'Unknown Author' does the trick.

fixed in
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=720b3c133cc6348537b4d013b4531856f73b392d

@Michael, @Miklos, thanks for your help.

On 27/7/20 21:59, Xisco Fauli wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> That might explain why another unittest I created for tdf#132944 was
> also giving different results locally and in jenkins, See
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132944#c10
>
> Do you know how I could reset the test to its original state?
>
> I tried to add something like this at the end of testRedlineViewAuthor
>
> const OUString aEmptyAuthor("");
> pView->SetRedlineAuthor(aEmptyAuthor);
> pDocShell->SetView(pView);
>
> or
>
> SwEditShell* const pEditShell(pDoc->GetEditShell());
> while(pEditShell->GetRedlineCount())
>     pEditShell->AcceptRedline(0);
>
> but the new unittest is still failing.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> On 27/7/20 18:24, Michael Stahl wrote:
>> On 27.07.20 17:54, Xisco Fauli wrote:
>>> Hello Miklos,
>>>
>>> On 27/7/20 8:46, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>>>> Hi Xisco,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:51:30PM +0200, Xisco Fauli
>>>> <xiscofauli at libreoffice.org> wrote:
>>>>> as I mentioned yesterday in the ESC meeting, i'm working on a unittest
>>>>> that is passing for me locally but it fails in Jenkins. The patch is
>>>>> here: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/99214
>>>>>
>>>>> it turned out it passes when executed with 'make
>>>>> CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter
>>>>> CPPUNIT_TEST_NAME="testTdf132911::TestBody"' but fails when executed
>>>>> with 'make CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter'.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea why it passes when the test is executed alone and why it
>>>>> fails
>>>>> when not ?
>>>> Most probably one of the tests violate that invariant that none of the
>>>> test cases in a suite should alter the global state. You could try to
>>>> disable the tests from the suite, i.e. binary search what test causes
>>>> the problem. Hopefully you can find a single 2nd test that makes your
>>>> new test fail, and then that's easier to investigate that the whole
>>>> sw_uiwriter suite, which has 300+ test cases.
>>> After disabling some tests here and there, I found
>>> SwUiWriterTest::testRedlineViewAuthor is the one affecting the execution
>>> of the new test.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure why it's happening yet but I do believe it has to do with
>>> the view being set in
>>> https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sw/qa/extras/uiwriter/uiwriter.cxx?r=99d4bf94#5477
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried to add the following like at the end of the unittest but it
>>> didn't work:
>>>
>>> pDocShell->GetViewShell()->GetViewFrame()->GetDispatcher()->Execute(SID_CLOSEWIN,
>>>
>>> SfxCallMode::SYNCHRON);
>>>
>>> ( similar to destroyView in lokhelper <
>>> https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sfx2/source/view/lokhelper.cxx?r=2f72fa98#93
>>>
>>>> )
>>> Any idea what is happening and how to solve it? Otherwise I might go
>>> with your second solution and put the test somewhere else.
>> the problem is that it sets a different redline author; this causes
>> different paths to be taken in AppendRedline() with checks like
>> pRedl->IsOwnRedline(*pNewRedl).
>>
>> btw i think i'll revert the fix for that bug because i accidentally
>> wrote a different fix for it last week (and now i know why that one
>> only worked on my master build, because guess what, it has a user-name
>> set for some different bug so the redline author name isn't "Unknown
>> Author"...), and today i found out why the 2 commits don't like each
>> other.
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Xisco Faulí
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