More test speedups:

- Add tasks to test lib without coverage
- Add a coverage flag to test.py (set to True, for manual tweaking for now)

lms/envs/test.py

@@ -27,12 +27,18 @@ SOUTH_TESTS_MIGRATE = False # To disable migrations and use syncdb instead
 
 # Nose Test Runner
 INSTALLED_APPS += ('django_nose',)
-NOSE_ARGS = ['--cover-erase', '--with-xunit', '--with-xcoverage', '--cover-html',
-             # '-v', '--pdb',     # When really stuck, uncomment to start debugger on error
-             '--cover-inclusive', '--cover-html-dir',
-             os.environ.get('NOSE_COVER_HTML_DIR', 'cover_html')]
-for app in os.listdir(PROJECT_ROOT / 'djangoapps'):
-    NOSE_ARGS += ['--cover-package', app]
+NOSE_ARGS = []
+
+# Turning off coverage speeds up tests dramatically... until we have better config,
+# leave it here for manual fiddling.
+_coverage = True
+if _coverage:
+    NOSE_ARGS = ['--cover-erase', '--with-xunit', '--with-xcoverage', '--cover-html',
+                 # '-v', '--pdb',     # When really stuck, uncomment to start debugger on error
+                 '--cover-inclusive', '--cover-html-dir',
+                 os.environ.get('NOSE_COVER_HTML_DIR', 'cover_html')]
+    for app in os.listdir(PROJECT_ROOT / 'djangoapps'):
+        NOSE_ARGS += ['--cover-package', app]
 TEST_RUNNER = 'django_nose.NoseTestSuiteRunner'
 
 # Local Directories

rakefile

@@ -151,6 +151,13 @@ Dir["common/lib/*"].each do |lib|
         sh("nosetests #{lib} --cover-erase --with-xunit --with-xcoverage --cover-html --cover-inclusive --cover-package #{File.basename(lib)} --cover-html-dir #{File.join(report_dir, "cover")}")
     end
     TEST_TASKS << task_name
+
+    desc "Run tests for common lib #{lib} (without coverage)"
+    task "fasttest_#{lib}" do 
+        sh("nosetests #{lib}")
+    end
+
+
 end
 
 task :test do