Le hasard fait bien les tests

DevFest Toulouse
Toulouse 🇫🇷France

Nov. 2025

David Pilato

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Abstract

Le hasard fait bien les choses.

Si on applique cette idée aux tests unitaires ou aux tests d’intégration, on peut rendre nos tests beaucoup plus imprévisibles et du coup trouver des problèmes que notre esprit n’aurait jamais osé imaginer ! Par exemple, récemment, j’ai découvert dans une bibliothèque de gestion de configuration, un bug qui se produit lorsque la Locale est configuré en AZ. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Un autre exemple encore plus simple :

int input = generateInteger(Integer.MIN_VALUE, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
int output = Math.abs(input);

Peut générer -2147483648… Ce qui est assez inattendu pour une valeur absolue ! 😉 Les tests aléatoires peuvent découvrir ces cas tordus… C’est ce que l’équipe elasticsearch a mis en place depuis plusieurs années à l’aide du framework RandomizedTesting pour tester tout le code Java.

Après cette conférence, vous ne verrez plus jamais la fonction random() comme avant et découvrirez comment la (mal)chance peut vous aider ! 🍀

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Who am I?

Developer | Evangelist at elastic and creator of the Elastic French User Group . Frequent speaker about all things Elastic, in conferences, for User Groups and in companies with BBL talks . In my free time, I enjoy coding and deejaying as DJ Elky , just for fun. Living with my children in Cergy, France.

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I discovered Elasticsearch project in 2011. After contributed to the project and created open source plugins for it, David joined elastic the company in 2013 where he is Developer and Evangelist. He also created and still actively managing the French spoken language User Group. At elastic, he mainly worked on Elasticsearch source code, specifically on open-source plugins. In his free time, he likes talking about elasticsearch in conferences or in companies (Brown Bag Lunches AKA BBLs ). He is also author of FSCrawler project which helps to index your pdf, open office, whatever documents in elasticsearch using Apache Tika behind the scene.

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