Suggestion: Allow tweaking TIME_MARGIN

[raif-s-naffah]

hi there,

while running the tests suite i often get multiple similar requests interleaved by 1-sec. occasionally this pattern loops for a long time to the point i have to kill the process and start again.

even when it eventually stops, this causes the server's logs to increase unnecessarily and make debugging a lot harder.

the issue, me think, is in helper.js/genDelay(), specifically the line

} else if ((new Date(res.headers['x-experience-api-consistent-through'])).valueOf() + module.exports.getTimeMargin() >= time) {

which in turn relies on the global TIME_MARGIN that gets set early on when the harness starts. in my case this measure, taken first thing after the server starts, is always longer than subsequent POSTs.

replacing the else conditional w/ \

} else if ((new Date(res.headers['x-experience-api-consistent-through'])).valueOf() >= time) {

solves my problem.

may be allowing to (a) ignore the TIME_MARGIN or (b) adjusting it by a multiplier as command line options could be considered.

thanks + cheers;
rsn