That sounds good.

Here's what we've tried with Travis:
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/2225

Happy to move this to something else.

Matthew, do you run a buildbot instance already?



Jason
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Jason Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We could setup Travis to test each slow test in a separate build giving
> up
> > to 50 mins for installation + testing a single test. If the tests are
> slower
> > than 50 mins, then we can forget them. In the case of mechanics it would
> be
> > very useful for us to have slow tests, as we can then check a benchmark
> > problems that puts all of our code through the ringer. I find tests like
> > these to be much more robust than smaller unit tests for our case.
> Testing
> > the all of the smaller pieces of the code individually does a lot of good
> > but there are just too many possible combinations of options to
> thoroughly
> > unit test. A "big" test with a known answer is really helpful for us.
> >
> > Another option would be to drop Travis and use something like Jenkins
> that
> > we install on our own server(s). Then we will not have time limits and
> have
> > more freedom to do anything with the build setup.
>
> Or run nightly slow tests on trunk using something like Jenkins or
> buildbot.  Would the Sage team let you run some jobs on their
> machines?    I'm happy to host sympy builds on our buildbot setup.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
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