[chore] Speed up tests

[DavidWells]

Running the test suite is a big issue for local development. The tests are taking upwards of 5 minutes locally on a MacBook Pro (2017), 3.1 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3.

The memory consumed while tests are running causing my machine to become unusable while the test suite is running in the pre-push githook. @RaeesBhatti has reported similar troubles with his machine.

Which problem is this feature request solving?

This is impacting my workflow & the feedback loop is troublesome.

Describe the solution you'd like

Any advice on how to fix this or avoid this in the current workflow would be awesome.

Potential ways to alleviate issues.

• Would concurrency limits help?
• Is it possible to run tests for only things that change?
• Can we disable local githooks until we speed up tests?
• Perhaps watch mode for testing would avoid re-running all tests?

Any insights would be much appreciated!

[DavidWells]

The current workaround is:

git push --set-upstream origin myBranchName --no-verify

[ehmicky]

Since 8c0660fa, tests are not run automatically on git push anymore, they are only run in CI or when manually calling ava.

That being said, I agree the tests are slow and should be sped up.

[ehmicky]

The tests have now been speed up:

• from around 20 minutes to 4 minutes in CI
• from 72 seconds to 8 seconds on my local machine