From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-10-01T16:04:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Optimizing testing

On Sep 30, 2007, at 14:44 , Martin Martinos wrote:

> I have a rake task that lunches all my unit tests. The execution of
> those tests may take over 20 mins.  I would like to have two rake  
> task,
> one that executes a set of quick tests and one that executes all the
> tests that will be executed in a nightly build.

If your tests take twenty minutes, they aren't unit tests.  Unit  
tests are fast because they only test a unit.

What is it that makes them take 20 minutes or more?

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