How can I write a test to check for race conditions?

Question

In a transactional system, race conditions typically occur rarely. It becomes challenging to write a test script specifically designed to check for race conditions.Do you write tests for such cases, or is it common practice to ignore these infrequent occurrences?

mojomark · Accepted Answer

Eager for a reply to this questio, as I have the same.

syndicatedjelly · Answer

In Go, this is available. Never used it before but could be worth digging into the details for some ideashttps://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector

How can I write a test to check for race conditions?

In a transactional system, race conditions typically occur rarely. It becomes challenging to write a test script specifically designed to check for race conditions.
Do you write tests for such cases, or is it common practice to ignore these infrequent occurrences?

Eager for a reply to this questio, as I have the same.

In Go, this is available. Never used it before but could be worth digging into the details for some ideas
https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector