Improve speed of the test harness by using "pytest-xdist" #278
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As outlined within #254 (comment), we will have to get rid of the dbmfile-based cache beforehand in order to mitigate concurrency issues. At #243 (comment), we started to look into |
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This got superseded again by #370. |
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Hi there,
the speed of the test harness can be tremendously improved by using pytest-xdist's parallelization feature. While @kmuehlbauer reported to have different results on CI, at least on my workstation I am seeing an improvement by factor 3.5.
Closes #253.
With kind regards,
Andreas.
P.S.: This is a re-upload of #254.