This test is indeed by far the culprit. I already reduced its test input
size to hurry it up, but it's gone slow again.

Lance, indeed, these are not all unit tests -- nobody said they were. The
test is useful.

I do suggest, however, we comment it out. Jake suggested it coudl be made
faster but I don't think he followed up.

Sean

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote:

> Comment out DistributedLanczosWhatsit. Zing!
>
> A unit test takes a bit of code X and checks that code path A goes
> "tick" and code path B goes "tock" and bogus input C throws an
> exception. There's no such thing as a "unit test" that runs twelve M/R
> jobs in a row.
>
> There's MRUnit, which seems trapped in the Hadoop 0.20/0.21/0.22/0.23
> morass. This is a squib about how to do unit testing of mappers and
> reducers with Mockito:
>
> http://nubetech.co/testing-hadoop-map-reduce-jobs
>
> What the Mahout jobs want is more of a regression test, which would
> have two purposes:
> 1) does the whole orchestration still work, and
> 2) does it still acquire the information it is supposed to acquire?
> 2a) this requires some amount of real data and a "gold standard"
> output to match against.
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 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
>
>
>
> --
> Lance Norskog
> [email protected]
>

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