need a way to limit the mount of time a unit test runs for
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Key: CONTINUUM-667
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CONTINUUM-667
Project: Continuum
Type: Bug
Components: Web interface, Core system
Versions: 1.0.3
Reporter: james strachan
Priority: Blocker
We get lots of builds hanging in CI due to test cases with timing issues on
different platforms. (You'd be amazed how easy that is to do). We need a way to
put in a maximum amount of time (say 5 minutes) for a single unit test - or a
max time per entire test run (say 1 hour) so that we can be alerted if a test
hangs.
If a test hangs it normally hoses the entire CI server. The worst thing is this
makes the entire CI useless since it does no more builds and we don't know its
failed.
I understand there are complications in killing stuff in Java. (Though
java.lang.Process.destroy() works for most things). One option is to just have
a status XML file we can poll for on a canoncial URL
http;//serverhost/module/status.xml
then we can look to see if any of the builds are blocked and if they are we can
get nagios or something to reboot the box / restart the CI server etc.
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