Comparison of runtime between Controllers and Integration Tests. Duplicated test case 10 times to simulate a larger test suite.

100_runs.rb

# Logging Enabled
guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time for i in {1..100}; do rake test:controllers; done;
real	7m47.588s
user	7m14.987s
sys	0m23.319s

guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time for i in {1..100}; do rake test:integration; done;
real	8m25.046s
user	7m51.508s
sys	0m24.071s

# Logging Disabled

guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time for i in {1..100}; do rake test:controllers; done;
real	7m15.452s
user	6m45.995s
sys	0m19.915s

guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time for i in {1..100}; do rake test:integration; done;
real	7m54.211s
user	7m23.826s
sys	0m20.610s

log.rb

guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time rake test:controllers
Run options: --seed 20971

# Running:

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Finished in 3.312826s, 30.1857 runs/s, 676.1598 assertions/s.

100 runs, 2240 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

real	0m4.628s
user	0m4.303s
sys	0m0.233s
guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time rake test:integration
Run options: --seed 26004

# Running:

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Finished in 3.830118s, 26.1089 runs/s, 584.8383 assertions/s.

100 runs, 2240 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

real	0m5.111s
user	0m4.776s
sys	0m0.241s

no_log.rb

guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time rake test:controllers
Run options: --seed 62995

# Running:

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Finished in 3.079742s, 32.4703 runs/s, 727.3337 assertions/s.

100 runs, 2240 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

real	0m4.385s
user	0m4.087s
sys	0m0.204s
guoxiang@guoxiang-GS60-2PC-Ghost rails-contributors (master) $ time rake test:integration
Run options: --seed 16933

# Running:

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Finished in 3.516242s, 28.4395 runs/s, 637.0438 assertions/s.

100 runs, 2240 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

real	0m4.808s
user	0m4.503s
sys	0m0.209s