Ember JS + Python A little background: over the last few months, I have been contributing in open source organization , where I’m working on a project called . It is a badge generator with a simple web UI to add data and generate printable badges in PDF. FOSSASIA BadgeYaY project is now divided into two parts i.e front-end of Ember JS and back-end with REST-API programmed in Python. Now, one of the challenging job is that, it should support the uncoupled architecture. It should therefore run tests for the front-end and backend i.e, of two different languages on isolated instances by making use of the parallel builds. Badgeyay isolated In this blog, I’ll be discussing how I have configured Travis CI to run the tests parallely in isolated parallel builds in in my Badgeyay Pull Request. First let’s understand what is build and why we need it. Then we will move onto configuring the travis.yml file to run tests parallely. Let’s get started and understand it step by step. Parallel Travis CI Why Parallel Travis CI Build? The integration test suites tend to test more complex situations through the whole stack which incorporates front-end and back-end, they likewise have a tendency to be the slowest part, requiring various minutes to run, here and there even up to 30 minutes. To accelerate a test suite like that, we can split it up into a few sections utilizing Travis build matrix feature. Travis will decide the based on environment variables and schedule two builds to run. build matrix Now our objective is clear that we have to configure travis.yml to build parallel-y. Our project requires two buildpacks, Python and node_js, running the build jobs for both them would speed up things by a considerable amount.It seems be possible now to run several languages in one .travis.yml file using the feature. matrix:include Below is the code snippet of the file for the project in order to run build jobs in a parallel fashion. travis.yml Badgeyay sudo: requireddist: trusty # check different combinations of build flags which is able to divide builds into “jobs”.matrix: # Helps to run different languages in one .travis.yml fileinclude: # First Job in Python language.— language: python3 apt:packages:— python-dev python:— 3.5cache:directories:— $HOME/backend/.pip-cache/ before_install:— sudo apt-get -qq update— sudo apt-get -y install python3-pip— sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv install:— virtualenv -p python3 ../flask_env— source ../flask_env/bin/activate— pip3 install -r backend/requirements/test.txt — cache-dir before_script:— export DISPLAY=:99.0— sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start— sleep 3 script:— python backend/app/main.py >> log.txt 2>&1 &— python backend/app/main.py > /dev/null &— py.test — cov ../ ./backend/app/tests/test_api.py after_success:— bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) # Second Job in node js language.— language: node_jsnode_js:— “6” addons:chrome: stable cache:directories:— $HOME/frontend/.npm env:global: See for details. https://git.io/vdao3 — JOBS=1 before_install:— cd frontend— npm install— npm install -g ember-cli— npm i eslint-plugin-ember@latest — save-dev— npm config set spin false script:— npm run lint:js— npm test Now, as we have added travis.yml and pushed it to the project repository. Here is the screen-shot of passing Travis CI after parallel build jobs. The related Pull Request of this work is https://github.com/fossasia/badgeyay/pull/512 With that, I have reached the end of our discussion on Parallelizing Builds In Travis CI. I wrote this post as a solution to this in BadgeYaY project. If you liked this post, consider having a look at my other work on 🙂. issue GitHub Source: Travis CI documentation PS: Constructive criticism is very much wanted. 🙂 Did you like the read? Medium doesn’t offer partner program in my country―so I ask people to buy me coffee instead.
