mocking_bit_gen_test.cc
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Add (unused) validation to absl::MockingBitGen · 254b3a53
`absl::Uniform(tag, rng, a, b)` has some restrictions on the values it can produce in that it will always be in the range specified by `a` and `b`, but these restrictions can be violated by `absl::MockingBitGen`. This makes it easier than necessary to introduce a bug in tests using a mock RNG. We can fix this by making `MockingBitGen` emit a runtime error if the value produced is out of bounds. Immediately fixing all the internal buggy uses of `MockingBitGen` is currently infeasible, so the plan is this: 1. Add turned-off validation to `MockingBitGen` to avoid the costs of maintaining unsubmitted code. 2. Temporarily migrate the internal buggy use cases to keep the current behavior, to be fixed later. 3. Turn on validation for `MockingBitGen`. 4. Fix the internal buggy use cases over time. --- A few of the different categories of errors I found: - `Call(tag, rng, a, b) -> a or b`, for open/half-open intervals (i.e. incorrect boundary condition). This case happens quite a lot, e.g. by specifying `absl::Uniform<double>(rng, 0, 1)` to return `1.0`. - `Call(tag, rng, 0, 1) -> 42` (i.e. return an arbitrary value). These may be straightforward to fix by just returning an in-range value, or sometimes they are difficult to fix because other data structures depend on those values. PiperOrigin-RevId: 635503223 Change-Id: I9293ab78e79450e2b7b682dcb05149f238ecc550
Justin Bassett committed