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Re:Unit testing in the enterprise: Five common myths dispelled by gojomo on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @04:14AM (#183247)
Sounds like you've got great test coverage, but the length of time it takes to run them is diluting their value, making you reluctant to run them as often and concerned about adding more.

Maybe you could offload/parallelize the test runs -- eg to a on-demand virtual hosting -- so as to minimize test run time as an issue?

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Re:Unit testing in the enterprise: Five common myths dispelled by demallien on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @06:07AM (#183283)
This is probably the direction that we need to be taking. Another requirement that we have is that the code compiles without warnings for about 20 different target platforms. This takes hours, and we are currently writing a tool to parallelise those builds - we're hoping for a 20x speed increase. Maybe a similar approach could be achieved for running tests...
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