[pypy-dev] Running pypy unit tests

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

It's maybe worth noting additionally that running a full test suite
takes several hours, so we don't recommend it as a way to do
development.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi Vaibhav,
>
> On 5 August 2015 at 10:22, Vaibhav Sood <vaibhav_sood at persistent.com> wrote:
>> The way I run the tests is “./pytest.py <folder>” for each folder in the
>> source code, I get the test results all folders but the command hangs for
>> one particular folder “pypy/module”
>
> By "each folder" we mean "each individual 'test' subfolder".  The
> pypy/module directory contains a large number of subdirectories, each
> with their own tests, so you should not run all the pypy/module tests
> at once.
>
> Yes, there is an automatic way.  However in general we don't use it
> ourselves.  It is used automatically by the nightly test runs which
> show up at http://buildbot.pypy.org (when the web site is not down
> like now...).
>
> Instead, when we do changes somewhere, we run directly the tests in
> the "test" subdirectory of where we did the changes, and if they pass,
> we commit.  In the rare case where this breaks things at some
> unrelated place, we will notice the next morning after the nightly
> run, and fix it then.
>
>
> A bientôt,
>
> Armin.
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