Any way to break the dao_unit_tests up?
The DAO unit tests take twice as long as the rest of the test to run is there any way to break them up into two pieces? -- Thanks Robert Middleswarth @rmiddle (twitter/IRC)
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It will not be easy.. The way the tests are built today is with DB-unit. DB-unit allows to have an XML file with predefined data (called fixtures) which is used to recreate the DB data each time a test-class is run. This is all fine, except that in our tests there are (at least) 2 issues: 1. The same fixtures.xml file is used in all DAO tests. 2. Some DAOs require fixtures for several tables. Now, we could fix issue #1 by splitting the fixtures file into smaller files, each relating to only one table, which would allow us to run these tests in parallel on the same DB. Issue #2 would require to figure out which tests require several fixtures, and have them run isolated from the other tests which require only a single table. A simpler solution could be to have the tests run each on it's own db schema (or it's own db) which eliminates the dependencies and allows to run all in parallel, but is a bit more complicated to maintain (we would need some script that generates these schemas/dbs for tests automatically) and keeping multiple schemas up to date would also require CPU time. This is speaking in terms of the tests themselves, without considering the build process itself.
On Monday 20 August 2012 11:16 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
There are two issues here: 1) DB connection is created during initialization of every test case, and destroyed at the end of each test case execution 2) The fixtures data is inserted during initialization of every test case I think both of these can be resolved by - creating the test data only during initialization of the first test case, which will include creating the connection (with auto-commit = false), inserting fixtures data and committing it - rolling back any changes done to the database during test case execution in the tearDown method I just tried this in two phases. Using the same connection across all test cases brought down the dao unit tests run time from 4:42.683s to 1:07.628s, and inserting the fixtures data only once further brought it down to just 22.295s ! (on my local development machine) I've just sent a patch with these changes: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/7336
On 08/21/2012 05:01 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote:
+100 on this. It reduce the processing time and load on the boxes to sustainable levels. This should improve response time a lot on submitted patches. Thanks Robert
-- Thanks Robert Middleswarth @rmiddle (twitter/Freenode IRC) @RobertM (OFTC IRC)
On 08/19/2012 11:03 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
The DAO unit tests take twice as long as the rest of the test to run is there any way to break them up into two pieces?
Can they run in parallel to the rest of the tests? May be a KISS solution for this problem. Y.
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Allon Mureinik -
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Yair Zaslavsky -
Yaniv Kaul