chore(travis): speed up the build

- parallelize the tasks
- cache requests (e2e tests)

This reduces the time from ~18min to ~12min.

It makes the output little messy. We could buffer output of each task and display it once it's fully finished, nicely. I think giving instant feedback is better.

.travis.yml

@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ before_script:
   - ./lib/sauce/sauce_connect_setup.sh
   - npm install -g grunt-cli
   - grunt package
-  - grunt webserver > /dev/null &
   - ./lib/sauce/sauce_connect_block.sh
 
 script:
-  - grunt test --reporters dots --browsers SL_Chrome
+  - grunt parallel:travis --reporters dots --browsers SL_Chrome

Gruntfile.js

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-connect');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compress');
+  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-parallel');
   grunt.loadTasks('lib/grunt');
 
   var NG_VERSION = util.getVersion();
@@ -21,6 +22,20 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   grunt.initConfig({
     NG_VERSION: NG_VERSION,
 
+    parallel: {
+      travis: {
+        options: {
+          stream: true,
+        },
+        tasks: [
+          util.parallelTask('test:modules'),
+          util.parallelTask('test:jquery'),
+          util.parallelTask('test:jqlite'),
+          util.parallelTask('test:e2e')
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+
     connect: {
       devserver: {
         options: {
@@ -40,7 +55,24 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
           }
         }
       },
-      testserver: {}
+      testserver: {
+        options: {
+          middleware: function(connect, options){
+            return [
+              function(req, resp, next) {
+                // cache get requests to speed up tests on travis
+                if (req.method === 'GET') {
+                  resp.setHeader('Cache-control', 'public, max-age=3600');
+                }
+
+                next();
+              },
+              connect.favicon('images/favicon.ico'),
+              connect.static(options.base)
+            ];
+          }
+        }
+      }
     },
 
 

karma-shared.conf.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ module.exports = function(config) {
     logLevel: config.LOG_INFO,
     logColors: true,
     browsers: ['Chrome'],
+    runnerPort: 0,
 
     // config for Travis CI
     sauceLabs: {

lib/grunt/utils.js

@@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ module.exports = {
     var browsers = grunt.option('browsers');
     var reporters = grunt.option('reporters');
     var noColor = grunt.option('no-colors');
+    var port = grunt.option('port');
     var p = spawn('node', ['node_modules/karma/bin/karma', 'start', config,
       singleRun ? '--single-run=true' : '',
       reporters ? '--reporters=' + reporters : '',
       browsers ? '--browsers=' + browsers : '',
-      noColor ? '--no-colors' : ''
+      noColor ? '--no-colors' : '',
+      port ? '--port=' + port : ''
     ]);
     p.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
     p.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
@@ -170,5 +172,24 @@ module.exports = {
       }
       next();
     };
-  }
+  },
+
+  parallelTask: function(name) {
+    var args = [name, '--port=' + this.lastParallelTaskPort];
+
+    if (grunt.option('browsers')) {
+      args.push('--browsers=' + grunt.option('browsers'));
+    }
+
+    if (grunt.option('reporters')) {
+      args.push('--reporters=' + grunt.option('reporters'));
+    }
+
+    this.lastParallelTaskPort++;
+
+
+    return {grunt: true, args: args};
+  },
+
+  lastParallelTaskPort: 9876
 };

package.json

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     "grunt-contrib-compress": "0.4.1",
     "grunt-contrib-connect": "0.1.2",
     "grunt-contrib-copy": "0.4.1",
+    "grunt-parallel": "~0.2.0",
     "jasmine-node": "1.2.3",
     "q": "~0.9.2",
     "q-fs": "0.1.36",