[infinispan-dev] Infinispan smoke tests?

[Galder Zamarreno]

I might be dreaming here but there're shouldn't even be the need for a 
profile. Surefire should be clever enough to run all tests in group 
"smoke" by doing something like this:

mvn test -Dtestng.group=smoke

On 09/04/2009 06:33 PM, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
> I'd avoid profiles if possible. It is easy for us to remember all these
> stupid profiles rules and such but imagine someone contributing code and
> now having to understand complex test running, they need to read wiki
> instructions... The end results will be more problems down the road.
>
> Keep it simple. Before proceeding into profiles why not give these slow
> tests another look to see if they can be somehow sped up? It would be so
> cool if we could assign thread pools to test groups in testng :(
>
>
> On 09-09-04 10:49 AM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Due to the complexity of tests that have been added to the Infinispan
>> test suite, the time it takes to run the testsuite has almost doubled.
>> These tests (i.e. distribution rehashing, non-blocking state transfer)
>> need to be run, that's for sure.
>>
>> However, I was thinking whether we could create a brand new group of
>> tests called "smoke". The aim here is for the tests in that group to run
>> lightning fast and cover 90% of the testsuite.
>>
>> I think this would help find most of the regressions that are sometimes
>> introduced for not running the testsuite locally.
>>
>> Once hudson issues have been solved, we'll be in a better situation but
>> I still think having this 'smoke' group could help avoid regressions.
>> Obviously, the danger here is people always running this profile and
>> then discovering loads of test fails when the entire testsuite is run
>> but we have this issue now too.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache