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[Leo Arias <leo.arias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Andy Doan <andy.doan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> During the transition to Utopic Paul and I worked on a way to better
> utilize the devices in our lab so that we can run our daily image tests in
> parallel. We enabled this late yesterday and the results are very good.
>
> Our daily image testing was taking ~4:10 minutes on mako. We've now
> allocated 3 makos for testing and have the time down to ~1:50 minutes (its
> not quite a 3x improvement because you still spend a bit of time
> provisioning each device with the build).
>
> Hopefully this will help speed things up for everyone and as our lab
> capacity grows, we'll be able to reduce these times even more.
>
> -andy
>

That's awesome! Nice work. We can't do anything to make the autopilot tests
faster. Actually, while cleaning them to be more stable and readable we are
making them slower. So parallelization is the way to go. Thanks.
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