[jboss-as7-dev] AS7 test suite on slow machines

[Aleksandar Kostadinov]

Hello,

as part of my assignments I have to run JBoss AS7 test suite in 
different conditions, sometimes on not as powerful machines as one would 
hope. There are some tests that fail due to bad timings. This is a 
problem certifying products based on AS7 in different environments.

What I am offering is to help setting up JBoss AS 7 test suite on a 
slower machine like an amazon EC2 small instance or use some other 
technique (e.g. cgroups) to limit the memory and CPU time available to 
the test suite in a way to simulate an amazon EC2 small instance. That 
would allow for the AS7 team to receive timely notifications for tests 
that are prone to timing issues.

What do you think about such idea? Do you have already CI on slower 
machines? Do you have a jenkins instance to be used for the task or need 
to setup a separate instance? If a new instance is to be used, is it 
necessary to be public visible?

Regards,
Aleksandar