[Engine-devel] Forking unit tests

[Mike Kolesnik]

> 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!

Would it be possible to have this as a parameter (defaul true) that can be overridden, such as -Dengine.forkTests=false ?

> 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
>