Fix race - #13
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Fixes a race brought to light by ISISComputingGroup/lewis#336 - that PR subtly changes emulator timing behaviour, in a way our tests should be resilient to. But in this test, we were relying on a
get_valuecompleting quickly enough to see the most recent update, in a brittle way.It's been replaced with the standard
causes_func_to_return_truemachinery to avoid this race.To test this:
python -m pip install git+https://github.com/ISISComputingGroup/lewis@c79836a93d62b93a5a43a3398d664b246e975b31run_tests.bat-test_GIVEN_buffer_almost_full_WHEN_buffer_fills_and_overflows_THEN_correct_readings_returned_1will probably fail