Attempt to reduce flakiness of processes_lifecycle_test.rb

[p-schlickmann]

Hey @rosa 👋

This is an attempt to reduce the flakiness of processes_lifecycle_test.rb

Issue: #602

[p-schlickmann]

Well, that clearly didn't work lol

This is quite tricky! I ran it over 5k times locally, no flakiness.

I'm starting to think about alternative approaches, maybe we can use minitest-retry gem?

[rosa]

Sorry @p-schlickmann, I missed this one! Let's try a bit more to see if we can solve the ones pending, and then if not, we can try with minitest-retry. I'm worried that gem will, long-term, hide all the flaky tests and turn the whole test suite into something pretty slow 😅 (It has happened to me in the past).

Going to close this one, since this attempt didn't work. I'll keep working on this myself from time to time!

[p-schlickmann]

No worries @rosa, been quite busy here as well.

Yes, I do agree we can try a bit more until adding minitest-retry. But if we do, maybe we can set max retries to a very small number so that problem you mentioned doesn't happen in the long run.