# very long time ? :)

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 12:05:25 PM UTC+2, Nathann Cohen wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> In my current patches I often meet some threshold in the doctests I add. 
> Instantaneous doctests are okay, doctests which last a few seconds are "# 
> long time", but because I add many 'long' doctests in the same files I 
> sometimes flag them as 'not tested' lest it take minutes to doctest a file.
>
> In the group/ folder, there is one doctest like that:
>
>     sage: %time TestSuite(TransitiveGroups()).run()
>     CPU times: user 40.1 s, sys: 3.68 s, total: 43.8 s
>     Wall time: 46.5 s
>
> What do you think we should do ? Keep it, or make it test less than what 
> it currently tests ?
>
> Understand me: Doctests are dead useful, and I am not asking to take it 
> lightly. The thing is, however, that I run tests often when I work on a 
> patch and that waiting for doctests to run takes time, so we cannot have 
> anything in the doctests either.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nathann
>

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