[LRUG] Speeding up Cucumber

[Jonathan del Strother]

Are you using the RackTest driver, or Selenium?  RackTest is way
faster since it doesn't have to load up an actual browser, but
obviously won't suite everything.  If you're tied to using Selenium,
Chrome testing has recently gotten really good, and is a lot faster
than Firefox.  PhantomJS might also be worth a look, but when I tried
it a while back it seemed pretty rough.

That said, two minutes just to load a page does sounds pretty
excessive.  I'd stick copious amounts of logging all over the place &
tail test.log to see if you can spot anything weird happening.

On 14 March 2014 12:48, Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com> wrote:
> A classic problem would be that it’s not cucumber, but the app itself has a
> long boot up period.  If the app takes a while to start up as a normal
> server or console then perhaps look at tools like
> spring(https://github.com/rails/spring) or
> zeus(https://github.com/burke/zeus) to pre-load the environment so the tests
> don’t take the boot up hit to run.
>
>
> On 14 March 2014 12:41, Jon Wood <jon at ninjagiraffes.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hello El Rug,
>>
>> I'm currently at my wits end with a Cucumber suite, but I also don't have
>> any decent ideas on how to improve it. Running a really simple feature which
>> loads a page and asserts some content is found currently takes over two
>> minutes, which as I'm sure you can imagine makes doing BDD properly quite
>> awkward.
>>
>> To give a little context this is a Rails 2.3 application, running on Ruby
>> 1.8. Upgrading to a newer version of Ruby is in the backlog, but isn't a
>> viable option right now.
>>
>> So, does anyone have any tips on speeding things up, or even just working
>> out where I should start working to speed them up?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>>
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