Question

In ruby’s test/unit, the software indicates how long it takes for the tests to run, and the series of passes, errors and fails act like a pseudo-progress bar.

Apart from using code profiling tools or running tests individually, is there an easy way of telling which test methods are fast and which ones are slow?

Answer 1

When I need to do this in a large test suite, I override Test::Unit::TestCase setup and teardown. It doesn’t give precise measurements, but it can help assess relative speed.

module Test   module Unit     def setup       @start_time = Time.now     end      def teardown       puts '#{@method_name}: #{Time.now - @start_time}s'     end   end end