Hi,

attached you will find the beaster:

- Only modifies common-build.xml, so no inherit down (makes no sense otherwise, 
as you would never run "ant beast-test" from top-level. So you have to go to 
correct submodule and run "ant beast-test -Dbeast.iters=n -Dtestcase=..." from 
there
- Uses "antcall" in a loop, invoking the internal dependency-less "-test" 
target. My first impl used the test-macro directly, but this did not work, 
because test-macro sets non-local properties, which are then available on 
second round, causing errors or use always same seed. Antcall creates a new 
project each time and runs tests.

I can open an issue or just commit this :-)

Uwe

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Schindler [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 8:13 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Test iterations
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I will look into that as a Groovy Skript: The main problem is: You cannot 
> simply
> use <antcall/> in a loop, because this would also execute the dependencies
> on each run.
> 
> My idea is to do the following:
> - maybe subclass antcall Task with Groovy (not sure if this is needed)
> - instantiate it with current project
> - execute dependent targets
> - execute the inner target multiple times: store the project properties first
> and restore them after execution. This is done, because ANT properties can
> only be set *once*. If you don't give a fixed test seed, each run would pick a
> new one (because the project properties are reset, so the seed from the
> previous execution is gone).
> 
> Uwe
> 
> -----
> Uwe Schindler
> H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen
> http://www.thetaphi.de
> eMail: [email protected]
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ryan Ernst [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 5:08 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Test iterations
> >
> > Thanks for the extremely thorough answer, Dawid!  Entertaining as
> > always. :)
> >
> > > Should we provide this "beaster" in common-build?
> >
> > I would use it! It sounds like there is a lot of work involved in
> > making tests.iters work better with LuceneTestCase.  In the mean time,
> > this sounds like a quick solution that might not be as efficient
> > (multiple JVMs), but still better than having to come up with a bash script?
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Michael McCandless
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > +1, this sounds awesome?
> > >
> > > Mike McCandless
> > >
> > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> We could emulate the same thing (the repeating beaster) with pure
> Ant:
> > >>
> > >> Just repeat the "test" target, which can be done using ant-contrib's 
> > >> "for"
> > task or (much simplier) a groovy script using antcall on the test target.
> > >> Should we provide this "beaster" in common-build?
> > >>
> > >> "ant beast-tests -Dbeast.iter=100 -Dtestcase=..."
> > >>
> > >> Very easy to implement and makes it easier to use for the python
> > >> haters -
> > and comes embedded...
> > >>
> > >> Uwe
> > >>
> > >> -----
> > >> Uwe Schindler
> > >> H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de
> > >> eMail: [email protected]
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: Michael McCandless [mailto:[email protected]]
> > >>> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 3:48 PM
> > >>> To: Lucene/Solr dev
> > >>> Subject: Re: Test iterations
> > >>>
> > >>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >>> > Hi Dawid,
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Thanks for the very good explanation! Indeed the main problem with
> > >>> tests.iters is the static initializers. Maybe put that explanation
> > >>> into the Wiki! I sometimes also need to remember it, so it should be
> > documented.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > One (only theoretical) way to solve the whole thing could be:
> > >>> > Load the class(es) in a separate classloader for every repeated
> > >>> > execution,... but of course this will very fast blow up your
> > >>> > permgen (java 6, 7) or anything else we don't know about (java 8).
> > >>> > In fact the separate classloader approach is not different from
> > >>> > Mike's scripts, just that Mike's script creates a new classloader
> > >>> > by forking a new JVM. In fact I don't think the separate
> > >>> > classloader approach would be much faster, because the class
> > >>> > clones will all have separate compilation paths in Hotspot, so
> > >>> > Hotspot cannot share the same assembler code. So except the JVM
> > >>> > startup time, you gain nothing. Just permgen issues :-)
> > >>>
> > >>> The big thing the python beasting scripts avoids is all the ant
> > >>> overhead to just get to the point where it actually spawns the JVM
> > >>> to run the test.  Really, that's all the beasting script does:
> > >>> directly spawn the JVM on the test runner (after running "ant
> > >>> test-compile" up
> > >>> front) and then parse its output/events.
> > >>>
> > >>> The distributed test runner, which uses rsync/ssh to run tests on N
> > >>> machines, is very different from the beasting script: it runs all
> > >>> Lucene's tests (instead of a single test over and over) across N
> > >>> JVMs on M machines.  It "cheats" by taking the union of all
> CLASSPATHs
> > ...
> > >>> but this is a huge win because it means all testing is fully
> > >>> concurrent, not just concurrent within one module.  This script can
> > >>> also repeat, which means once all lucene tests finish, re-en-queue all
> of
> > them again.
> > >>>
> > >>> Mike McCandless
> > >>>
> > >>> http://blog.mikemccandless.com
> > >>>
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