[Geotools-devel] Speeding up main's unit tests

[James M. <jma...@gm...>]

Hi all.

The total build time for main on my box is just under 3 minutes, the
bulk of that time comes from the execution of unit tests.  Now we have
a lot of them, and that is a good thing, we have (or had) good
coverage with our test set but a long build makes development
painfull.

I would be nice if some of the more expensive tests could be
streamlined a little - the tests which take over 3 seconds (on my box)
are:

GMLStreamingParserTest - 10.281 sec
GMLParserTest - 7.344 sec
ResampleTest - 4.469 sec
GridCoverageTest sec
GridCoverageRendererTest - 3.297 sec
OperationsTest - 3.171 sec

If the StreamingParser test is mainly a stress test then I can exclude
it in a similar way to the 'onlinetests'. however, if it can be just
as effective on a smaller dataset then that would be good.

Can the grid tests be run on smaller data sets? =20

There are a dozen tests in the 1-2 second range that would be worth
speeding up if it can be done without impacting the validity of the
test, if everyone involved with main could take a little time to think
about what their tests are doing and how long they take I'm sure we
can make development life a little better for everyone.

James