a1475dbeb9
Right now the slowest test in the test/cqlpy directory is
cassandra_tests/validation/entities/collections_test.py::
testMapWithLargePartition
This test (translated from Cassandra's unit test), just wants to verify
that we can write and flush a partition with a single large map - with
200 items totalling around 2MB in size.
200 items totalling 2MB is large, but not huge, and is not the reason
why this test was so so slow (around 9 seconds). It turns out that most
of the test time was spent in Python code, preparing a 2MB random string
the slowest possible way. But there is no need for this string to be
random at all - we only care about the large size of the value, not the
specific characters in it!
Making the characters written in this text constant instead of random
made it 20 times fast - it now takes less than half a second.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Closes scylladb/scylladb#28271
Scylla in-source tests.
For details on how to run the tests, see docs/dev/testing.md
Shared C++ utils, libraries are in lib/, for Python - pylib/
alternator - Python tests which connect to a single server and use the DynamoDB API unit, boost, raft - unit tests in C++ cqlpy - Python tests which connect to a single server and use CQL topology* - tests that set up clusters and add/remove nodes cql - approval tests that use CQL and pre-recorded output rest_api - tests for Scylla REST API Port 9000 scylla-gdb - tests for scylla-gdb.py helper script nodetool - tests for C++ implementation of nodetool
If you can use an existing folder, consider adding your test to it. New folders should be used for new large categories/subsystems, or when the test environment is significantly different from some existing suite, e.g. you plan to start scylladb with different configuration, and you intend to add many tests and would like them to reuse an existing Scylla cluster (clusters can be reused for tests within the same folder).
To add a new folder, create a new directory, and then
copy & edit its suite.ini.