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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.9.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt index 8a097bba8c..55e3a2d5c7 100644 --- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt +++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/unit-tests.txt @@ -284,3 +284,16 @@ combine this with ``--verbosity=2``, all SQL queries will be output:: .. versionadded:: 1.8 The ``--reverse`` and ``--debug-sql`` options were added. + +By default tests are run in parallel with one process per core. You can adjust +this behavior with the ``--parallel`` option:: + + $ ./runtests.py basic --parallel=1 + +You can also use the ``DJANGO_TEST_PROCESSES`` environment variable for this +purpose. + +.. versionadded:: 1.9 + + Support for running tests in parallel and the ``--parallel`` option were + added. diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.txt index 99b6e44bc3..41e7701e99 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.9.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.9.txt @@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ Each process gets its own database. You must ensure that different test cases don't access the same resources. For instance, test cases that touch the filesystem should create a temporary directory for their own use. +This option is enabled by default for Django's own test suite on database +backends that support it (this is all the built-in backends except for +Oracle). + Minor features ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -686,7 +690,8 @@ Database backend API and hasn't been called anywhere in Django's code or tests. * In order to support test parallelization, you must implement the - ``DatabaseCreation._clone_test_db()`` method. You may have to adjust + ``DatabaseCreation._clone_test_db()`` method and set + ``DatabaseFeatures.can_clone_databases = True``. You may have to adjust ``DatabaseCreation.get_test_db_clone_settings()``. Default settings that were tuples are now lists |