How to speed up Google App Engine Go unit tests?

Question

I am currently writing a lot of unit tests for my package that runs on GAE Go. The package in question is focused on data saving and loading to and from appengine/datastore. As such, I have about 20 unit test files that look a bit like this:

package Data

import (
    "appengine"
    "appengine/aetest"
    . "gopkg.in/check.v1"
    "testing"
)

func TestUsers(t *testing.T) { TestingT(t) }

type UsersSuite struct{}

var _ = Suite(&UsersSuite{})

const UserID string = "UserID"


func (s *UsersSuite) TestSaveLoad(cc *C) {
    c, err := aetest.NewContext(nil)
    cc.Assert(err, IsNil)
    defer c.Close()
    ...

As a result, each individual test file appears to be starting its own version of devappserver:

Repeat this 20 times and my unit tests run for over 10 minutes.

I am wondering, how can I speed up the execution of my testing suite? Should I have just one file that creates aetest.NewContext and passes that onwards, or is it due to me using separate Suites for each unit test? How can I speed this thing up?

Answer 1

You can use a custom TestMain function:

var ctx aetest.Context

var c aetest.Context

func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
    var err error
    ctx, err = aetest.NewContext(nil)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    code := m.Run() // this runs the tests
    ctx.Close()
    os.Exit(code)
}

func TestUsers(t *testing.T) {
    // use ctx here
}

This way the dev server is started once for all the tests. More details on TestMain are available here: http://golang.org/pkg/testing/#hdr-Main.