[CASSANDRA-18000] CircleCI: Skip checkstyle in the Ant-based repeated tests

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.29, 3.11.15, 4.0.8, 4.1-rc1, 5.0-alpha1, 5.0
• Component/s: CI
• Epic Link: circleci_improvements
• Change Category: Quality Assurance
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/95400649d83f5759a452a381eb6034f4c62bda94

Test and Documentation Plan

We should run CI with some multiplexed test and manually check that test jobs don't run build-test, checkstyle, nor any of their dependencies.

• Assignee: Andres de la Peña
• Reporter: Andres de la Peña

Authors

Andres de la Peña

Reviewers

Berenguer Blasi

• Created: 27/Oct/22 15:48
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:02
• Resolved: 04/Nov/22 16:32

Description

The CircleCI jobs for repeating Ant-based tests include the checkstyle and checkstyle-test targets. Those targets are skipped for Java 11 but not for Java 8.

Including those targets on every test iteration produces a significant difference in the run times of repeated test jobs for j8 and j11:

• https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/adelapena/cassandra/2328/workflows/122d58b9-b454-4a99-8c46-f7777b7ef225/jobs/23225
• https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/adelapena/cassandra/2328/workflows/50f33d9b-c7c6-4aa9-bac9-22ac78ad6b8c/jobs/23224

We should use the no-checkstyle flag in the iterations done by those jobs. That should significantly speed up the jobs and save resources.

 

Thanks to bereng , who detected the difference in the running times between j8 and j11.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-18017 Jenkins: Consider using the no-build-test flag