RE: Something is wrong with my threads

> You don’t test race conditions by simulating non-deterministic conditions.
> You test a race condition by deterministically faking the race collision.

I rather thought that I was doing the latter.  I'm attempting to arrange for fifty threads to call a method at the same time.

That in itself is not deterministic -- I can't guarantee to be successful in doing that every time, unfortunately, or I could just make two threads instead of fifty.  But I'm not "simulating a non-deterministic condition".  The condition is deterministic; if I manage to call the same method twice at exactly the same time, then there will always be a problem.  (Except the code uses a Mutex, so I'm testing that there is not one.)

I'm really not sure what point you are making here.


> Or you design your code to not have the race condition at all (better).

I have.  I've used a Mutex to eliminate the possibility of a race condition.  Now I need to test that that works.



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