Speed-up tests a bit in systems with slow hwinfo

[ancorgs]

Problem

The testsuite used to run in around 2-4 minutes in my personal system.

We have always known that we should be more aggressive mocking calls to hwinfo and some libstorage-ng operations (mostly those that result in calls to udevadm --settle). But even without that mocking, the situation was still acceptable.

Recently things became MUCH worse. Now the testsuite is much slower. I was not able to find what caused it. No luck bisecting the changes in the repository, so I guess the problem is somewhere else (some combination of changes in libstorage-ng or another YaST package, Ruby, the Tumbleweed kernel, udev and whatnot).

Solution

Even if the source of the recent slow-down is still there, I decided to introduce the long-overdue mocking for hwinfo in order to mitigate the problem.

Now the execution time is acceptable again, even if there is still room for improvement (if someone can find why/how at some point we went from a couple of minutes to ~10mins).

[coveralls]

coverage: 97.759%. remained the same when pulling 1365974 on test_performance into 5ba6fc2 on master.

[mvidner]

LGTM

BTW have you tried rspec --profile?

[joseivanlopez]

LGTM

[lslezak]

I can confirm that on my system it is more than twice faster.

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