Time to build and test results 3x faster - how we did it

Time to Build and Test Results

3x faster – How We Did It

Aurélien Pupier R&D Engineer, Studio Development Leader

@apupier

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Agenda

• Initial context

• Actual status

• Methodology and Technology

• What’s next?

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Initial context

Once upon a time…

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What?

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What it means?

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Global Infrastructure

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φ Linux

SSD

VM

- Hudson slave

- RCP builds

φ Mac

- Hudson slave

φ Linux

VM

- Hudson Master

- Other Bonita

components

Execution time

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Actual status

What do we gain?

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3x faster!

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Simplicity!

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φ Linux

SSD

- Other Bonita components

- RCP builds

Methodology and Technology

Through the path

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Workforce

• Along the way

• 1 year

• Dedicated part-time “Build engineer” at the

end

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Tycho

• PDE build Tycho

• Easier Modularization

• Help from non-Eclipse RCP developer

– 2 20+

• Easier for Bonita Community

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Modularization

• Easier to split

• On-demand/nightly build:

– Translations

– Patched plugins

– Generated code

– Installers

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Mirrored Target Platform

• Avoid network latency

• Remove external dependencies

– LTS

– Stay the master

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Remove virtualization

• I/O access

• Virtualization killed SSD performance

• Tried

– mounted partition

– Logical Unit

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Backup

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• Environment and CI config stored on

– Less down time

– Easier to modify environment

Jenkins Scriptler plugin

• Allow “complex” build flow

• Easier to test a subpart

• Rejected:

– build-pipeline-plugin

– join-plugin

– Downstream/Upstream

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Don’t sleep while testing!

• bot.sleep() bot.waitUntil()

• Gain:

– Stability

– Speed

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Genisoimage

• Generate .dmg

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φ Mac

- Hudson slave

The key of success

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The key of success

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• Fail Fast

– Easy roundtrip

– Subpart testing

What’s next?

Harder, Better, Faster

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Others

• Tycho

– TP resolution

– Young project

• Test split

– Slow/fast

– Enough confidence on a smaller set?

• Translations

– BND use

– Avoid TP resolution

• Workflow Integration in Hudson/Jenkins

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