Quite reasonable. +1 On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With all of the added tests in standalone-metastore/…/client directory, the > runtime of ‘mvn test’ in standalone-metastore went from 6 minutes to 26 on > my humble laptop. We do not want to get ourselves back where the rest of > Hive is; currently Hive developers don’t run the unit tests themselves > because the tests take too long. I believe we should be working to push > the unit test runtime down to about 2 minutes, so people are willing to run > it frequently as part of their development. > > I don’t mean that the new tests aren't valuable. But we need a balance > between test coverage in the unit tests and usability. So I propose that > we carve off many of the current unit tests (including some not in the > client module, like TestSetUGI…, TestRemote...) in a new profile, > ‘nightly’, or ‘checkin’, or something. Then ‘mvn install’ will finish > quickly while hopefully covering 90% of the areas we need to cover. We can > ask developers to run the extended set before checkin and configure the > automated tests to do the same. This way we still cover everything before > committing. > > Seem reasonable? > > Alan. >
