[Engine-devel] Any way to break the dao_unit_tests up?

[Mike Kolesnik]

----- Original Message -----
> On Monday 20 August 2012 11:16 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> 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?
> >>
> > 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.
> 
> 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

Patch merged, 

Thanks Shireesh for the contribution, now the DAO tests are super fast!

> 
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> >> Robert Middleswarth
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