A tool for efficiently scheduling test execution. See Bug 931087 - [meta] Amazing parallel test runner (and metrics, etc..).
Requirements:
- Python 2.7 (download from python.org)
- Redis 2.2.12 or greater running either locally or at a network-accessible location (download from redis.io)
Install the tool by running:
$ python setup.py develop
The project installs a single executable in properly-configured environments:
parallelizer. This project is under heavy development, so in leui of formal
usage documentation, please invoke the executable with the --help flag:
$ parallelizer --help
The following terms have a specific meaning in this project, and understanding them will help in reading the source:
- performance report - a list of test file-weight pairs
- weight - a rough metric for test file resource needs, crudely normalized against system capabilities
- schedule - a list of jobs
- job - a list of test files
After installations, the project's tests can be run via:
$ nosetests
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