Granted, I'm on a slow machine, but our tests take forever to run. On an 2
core MBP, it takes well over an hour to run all the tests (I did just order a
new MBP, so it will be faster, but it doesn't lend itself to a good OOTB
experience for people)
One idea would be to add in parallel test execution in Maven. I think this
requires Mvn 3, but I am not sure. Another is to take a look at our tests,
especially the slow ones and see if we can speed them up.
When I try adding in parallel tests to Maven, I get a bunch of failures in the
tests.
I was using:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<forkMode>once</forkMode>
<argLine>-Xms256m -Xmx512m</argLine>
<testFailureIgnore>false</testFailureIgnore>
<redirectTestOutputToFile>true</redirectTestOutputToFile>
<parallel>classes</parallel>
<threadCount>5</threadCount>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Anyone played around with this stuff? I suspect the failures are due to tests
stomping on each other, but I am still digging in.
-Grant
