# Qunit tests not deterministic in Plugin?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/qunit-tests-not-deterministic-in-plugin/233389
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/qunit-tests-not-deterministic-in-plugin/233389 "2022-07-20T08:48:28Z")
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 8:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/qunit-tests-not-deterministic-in-plugin/233389/1 "2022-07-20T08:48:28Z")
I seem to be running into a race condition in Qunit, in my case running:
`rake "plugin:qunit[discourse-multilingual]"` with a branch installed.
I’m declaring a function in my initializer (i’m extending _I18n_)
The tests sometimes (25%?) seem to run before the plugin’s ember initializer has run and fails because the function is not defined.
How do I _ensure_ the plugin’s initializer js has run before the test fires?
test:
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definition:
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intermittent error:
`TypeError: _I18n.default.translate_tag is not a function`
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/qunit-tests-not-deterministic-in-plugin/233389/2 "2022-07-20T11:03:42Z")
OK I resolved this by refactoring. I moved my function out of I18n and into an existing multilingual module.
Something about extending I18n here is not reliable in all scenarios, least of all unit testing, apparently!