Parallel tests

in comparable time

Artur Trzop

X 2014

KRUG

A long time ago

many, many commits ago

Build was green

and fast

Tests were even faster

But winter finally came

Actually it was summer

and build was sl   w

Save time

&

get faster feedback

Parallel specs

splitting your test suite

Test suite example

1_fast_spec.rb
2_fast_spec.rb
3_fast_spec.rb
4_fast_spec.rb

5_slow_spec.rb
6_slow_spec.rb
7_slow_spec.rb

8_super_slow_spec.rb

Balancing

split all test files across N nodes:


Node 1

1_fast_spec.rb
2_fast_spec.rb

Node 2

3_fast_spec.rb
4_fast_spec.rb

Node 3

5_slow_spec.rb
6_slow_spec.rb

Node 4

7_slow_spec.rb

8_super_slow_spec.rb

It ends up like this...

Time for the rescue

let's split tests based on the time execution
with Knapsack gem

Node 1

8_super_slow_spec.rb
 
 
 

Node 2

7_slow_spec.rb
4_fast_spec.rb
1_fast_spec.rb
 

Node 3

6_slow_spec.rb
3_fast_spec.rb

Node 4

5_slow_spec.rb

2_fast_spec.rb


How ab   ut time

How to set up Knapsack?

# Gemfile
gem 'knapsack'

spec_helper.rb

require 'knapsack'
Knapsack::Adapters::RspecAdapter.bind

Rakefile

require 'knapsack'
Knapsack.load_tasks 

Generate time execution report for you spec files

 

run it on CI machine

$ KNAPSACK_GENERATE_REPORT=true \
bundle exec rspec spec

Commit generated report

into your repository

knapsack_report.json

Setup your CI server

$ CI_NODE_TOTAL=2 CI_NODE_INDEX=0 \
bundle exec rake knapsack:rspec

That's it.

What else?

integration with:

 

CircleCi.com

Travis.com (try Matrix Feature)

Semaphoreapp.com

 

Upcoming features

Cucumber support

 

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