[FLINK-19014] Investigate minimum e2e test duration

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Not a Priority
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Tests
• Labels: auto-deprioritized-major auto-deprioritized-minor pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chesnay Schepler
• Created: 21/Aug/20 09:18
• Updated: 27/Nov/21 10:38

Description

Currently, the minimum time for an e2e test is roughly 30 seconds.

This even applies to tests that start a tiny cluster and only run a WordCount.

It would be good to understand what exactly causes these tests to run for such a long time.

Issue Links

• relates to: FLINK-19215 "Resuming Savepoint (rocks, scale down, rocks timers) end-to-end test" failed with "Dispatcher REST endpoint has not started within a timeout of 20 sec"
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #13438