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Skipped flaky tests

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by locating and running the named tests: test_reshape, test_std, test_var, test_remainder, and test_count_nonzero. Inspect why the tests are skipped or flaky across implementations, especially JAX, while leaving timeout health checks skipped and addressing filtering health checks through the strategy. Done means the listed tests run reliably without inappropriate skips and still verify the intended behavior.

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Description

high priority

Several tests are completely skipped right now because they are "flaky".

  • test_reshape
  • test_std
  • test_var
  • test_remainder

This is a pretty high priority issue because these functions are effectively completely untested, even though they appear to be tested.

Tests should be written in such a way that they aren't flaky, for instance, by using high numerical tolerances (or if necessary, avoiding values testing entirely).

Note that health checks for timeouts should just be skipped, and health checks for filtering too much should be fixed by fixing the strategy.

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