Howdy, Do we think it's both feasible and worthwhile to invest in getting our unit tests to finish in under 5 minutes (or something similarly brief) when run by Jenkins?
Unit tests currently seem to take anywhere from 30 min to 2 hours. As people add more tests, I imagine this time will only grow. I think it would be better for both contributors and reviewers if they didn't have to wait so long for test results; PR reviews would be shorter, if nothing else. I don't know how how this is normally done, but maybe it wouldn't be too much work to get a test cycle to feel lighter. Most unit tests are independent and can be run concurrently, right? Would it make sense to build a given patch on many servers at once and send disjoint sets of unit tests to each? I'd be interested in working on something like that if possible (and sensible). Nick
