Ideas and tips for temporal unit-testing?

Question

Has anyone done temporal unit-testing?

I\'m not even sure if such lingo has been coined or not, but the point is to test that operations perform within temporal lim

Answer 1

I think you could do regression checks over unit-test runtime figures. With a lot of the unit test frameworks you can typically get a report that says testname, executiontime. I know junit/surefire does it. So basically you can compare this to previous runs and establish if any significant changes have taken place. If you keep all of this in a database (with the hostname) you can compare execution times for the same run-time environment to previous test-runs. In this way you don't really write tests for performance but you just assert separately that there have been no significant changes to execution-time.