Brane, to be fully accurate we should restart the machine and login to the OS to start each new test, but this is an overhead.
In terms of Ignite in most cases Serj's idea will be fine, I think. I absolutely agree on accuracy point with you. It should never suffer. --Yakov 2015-09-20 13:34 GMT+03:00 Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>: > On 20.09.2015 10:11, Yakov Zhdanov wrote: > > Very cool idea! However this will not be working in 100% cases since > > sometimes we need custom grid configurations, SPIs, etc, but for > > significant number of tests this will work. > > This is actually, IMO, a very bad idea. One of the most important > principles when designing tests is that each test case should be > independent of others. In practice that means that if you run test cases > in random order, their results should always be the same. If a test case > depends on a particular way the grid is started up, then moving the grid > startup outside the test case will introduce dependencies between test > cases that could hide bugs. > > The primary goal of a test suite is not to be efficient and fast but to > be accurate. > > -- Brane > > > > 2015-09-20 11:00 GMT+03:00 Sergi Vladykin <sergi.vlady...@gmail.com>: > > > >> Guys, > >> > >> A little observation. We have really many tests which start and stop > nodes > >> for each test method. > >> Example is IgniteCacheAbstractQuerySelfTest, it contains about 30 test > >> methods and 3 subclasses. > >> In beforeTest method it starts nodes in afterTest it stops them, while > >> cache setup is the same. > >> > >> What I'm trying to say is that each test method itself takes > milliseconds > >> to run, but grid start/stop takes* more than 5 seconds* for each test > >> method. So from the standpoint of time we are testing grid start/stop > all > >> the time. It is not surprising that our tests take very long time to > >> finish. > >> > >> Since we already support dynamic cache start/destroy which are much more > >> fast than grid start/stop, > >> I think we should go through a refactoring and use existing nodes > within a > >> suite as much as possible. > >> I believe this can reduce run time of cache related tests like 10 times. > >> > >> Sergi > >> > >
