[Catalyst] reducing app startup time in tests

[Richard Jolly]

catalyst-bounces at lists.rawmode.org wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2006, at 13:55, Richard Jolly wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We have a fair number of tests using
> Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst.
>> The startup time in these is slow enough (approx 20 seconds) that it
>> is inconvenient for development, because our total test run is
>> almost 1 hr. 
>> 
>> Most of these tests have identical setup actions, and do not alter
>> the db they run against. 
>> 
>> The hardware is sub par, which is one obvious way to address this.
>> Another would be to start a server and run the tests against that.
>> Are there others? Something clever like using Storable to freeze the
>> initialized Catalyst app to disk, and have the test setup simply
>> retrieve it?
> Wouldn't it be easier simply to have a copy of the test
> server fired up at the beginning of a test run and then use
> the CATALYST_SERVER environment variable to make
> Catalyst::Test (and hence TWM::C) run against this rather
> than an embedded copy?

That is the method we will go with. 

Thanks, Richard

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