I updated the python version: it now handles 20000 random tests too.

Hi booleangate,

Randomized tests are common practice on codewars on a submit. Just to prevent people from cheating. And I can assure you that there were people who did when I did not have them ;)

The way I do it, I do not any the problem. What I do find a problem is when people generate random input and use there own initial solution for generating 'expected' output. In that way all the bugs, undocumented functionality etc. of the initial solution are from then on 'by design'.

In my daily work I never used randomized tests and I even never use tests with DateTime.Now but only with fixed dates.

Hi,

I had troubles to validate/publish the python translation with 20000 tests (slowes down the navigator "to death"...). That's why I reduced their number. I just modified it to 10000. Seems to work.

@FrankK: btw, you never replied to my questions in the sortable poker hand kata. Could you please take a look?

EDIT: Actually... if the validation work in the edit panel with 10000 random tests, impossible to publish it: server times out each time. Tried with 10000, 5000... No way. Passed with 2000.

I agree. That is why I originally did 20000 random tests with the same range of hands. In that case, there is no chance that hands are NOT tested against each other.

The translator for Python lowered it to 1000 random tests for Python. I don't know why. It still sounds like enough tests to be not 'non deterministic'.