When testing things I'm for sure are flaky, like dynamoDB

# kotest

[LeoColman]

When testing things I'm for sure are flaky, like dynamoDB

[albertosh]

Do you mean “flaky” as “sometimes it fails, sometimes it passes” or “eventually it passes”?

[albertosh]

I’d say the second as DynamoDB is by default eventually consistent. In that case, you can use eventually
https://github.com/kotest/kotest/blob/master/doc/nondeterministic.md

[LeoColman]

the problem with eventually is that I'll have to wrap the whole code in it

[LeoColman]

And thus every test will have a eventually(3.seconds) { } block

[albertosh]

mmmm
Depending on which style you’re using you could create a function that receives a receiver function that “overrides” the style you choose and adds the eventually
Since I explained myself pretty bad (sorry 😅) probably a snippet is better, something like

class MyTests : FunSpec({
    test("overriden") {
        ...
    }
    override fun test(x: String, body: () -> Unit) {
        eventually(3.seconds) { super.test(x, body)
    }
})

I don’t have an open IDE, so it may have some compilation errors

[albertosh]

But yeah, having some extension for it will probably simplify things