Slow builds due to UI tests

Kevin Smith

21 Jun, 2016 09:28 AM

Hello,
We seem to be having a lot slower build times for projects that have Browser UI testing on them, for example a transition on a UI test is taking 30 seconds while locally it takes around 0.3 seconds. This there other options for VMs that we can use that have better graphics rendering?

Cheers,

Kev

  1. #1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 21 Jun, 2016 02:47 PM

    Hi Kevin,

    Have you tried looking via RDP what's going on during the tests: http://www.appveyor.com/docs/how-to/rdp-to-build-worker?

    Many customers use AppVeyor for their UI tests and Hyper-V VMs (used on Pro environment) have been really good for that.

  2. #2 Posted by Kevin Smith on 21 Jun, 2016 04:07 PM

    We’re just having problems with some css3 animations with our Selenium/Coypu tests, They seem to run really slow.

    We’re already on a Pro account and that doesn’t seem to make any difference, Is there any other instance we can try that has more graphical computations?

    Cheers,

    Kev

  3. #3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 21 Jun, 2016 04:54 PM

    You can try running those builds on a different environment based on Google Compute Engine (GCE). Their VMs have slightly different architecture, I'm not sure about graphical adapter though.

    I've added a new Visual Studio 2015 - GCE build worker image under your account that selectively allows you running builds on GCE environment. If you use appveyor.yml then specify it as:

    image: Visual Studio 2015 - GCE

    otherwise select that image it on Environment tab of project settings.

  4. Ilya Finkelshteyn closed this discussion on 25 Aug, 2018 02:06 AM.

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