[Engine-devel] Forking unit tests

[Yair Zaslavsky]

On 06/13/2012 01:28 PM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> If you're using settings.xml as published in Building the oVirt
>> Engine page, you'd see we're forking for every test, in every
>> subproject.
>> This behaviour was introduced to handle memory leaks in PowerMock we
>> use in some subprojects, but is redundant in others.
>>
>> Over the past month or so I've been working on removing PowerMock
>> from as many places as possible (many thanks to mkolesni and
>> lhornyak!), and we've got to the stage that forking is only needed
>> in to subprojects - bll and resttypes.
> 
> +1 - great job!
+1
> 
> Would it be possible to have this as a parameter (defaul true) that can be overridden, such as -Dengine.forkTests=false ?+
+1 - good idea.

> 
>> The forking was defined explicitly in those two projects, so if you
>> want to speed up your tests, just take the latest version of
>> settings.xml from
>> http://ovirt.org/wiki/Building_oVirt_engine#Maven_personal_settings.
>>
>>
>> -Allon
>>
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