Are you joking? This is the kind of thing that leads to flaky tests. I was always counseled against the use of randomness in my tests, unless we're talking generative testing like quickcheck.

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dathinab 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

or, maybe, there is something hugely wrong with your code, review pipeline or tests if adding randomness to unit test values makes your tests flaky and this is a good way to find it

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devin 4 hours ago | parent [-]

or, maybe, it signals insufficient thought about the boundary conditions that should or shouldn't trigger test failures.

doing random things to hopefully get a failure is fine if there's an actual purpose to it, but putting random values all over the place in the hopes it reveals a problem in your CI pipeline or something seems like a real weak reason to do it.

	▲	tomjakubowski 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think anyone is advocating for random application of randomness.

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whynotmaybe 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

`today` is random.

	▲	InsideOutSanta 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If "today" were random, our universe would be pretty fricken weird.
	▲	Eldt 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's dynamic, but it certainly isn't random, considering it follows a consistent sequence