[Bug 743063] validate: launcher: Add option to run tests in parallel

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743063
  GStreamer | gst-devtools | git master

--- Comment #3 from Thibault Saunier <tsaunier at gnome.org> 2015-01-19 19:02:19 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Added support for multiple threads in the HTTP server. Updated git repo. I
> still disabled a few tests that take 10 minutes to reach the hard timeout.

We should probably change that hard timeout to something more sensible than 10
minutes.

> The GES tests aren't running on git HEAD either.

What do you mean GES tests aren't running on master?


> $ gst-validate-launcher --sync --mute -b
> "validate.http.transcode.*.vorbis_vp8_1_webm" -b
> validate.http.playback.seek_with_stop.mp3_h264_1_mp4 -b
> validate.http.playback.seek_with_stop.raw_h264_1_mp4
> 
> The results on a box with 4 cores were:
>  -j1           Total time spent: 0:37:03.168778 seconds
>  -j2           Total time spent: 0:20:21.908862 seconds
>  -j4           Total time spent: 0:10:57.954698 seconds
>  -j8           Total time spent: 0:06:44.182272 seconds

Thanks for that, I will review it as soon as I find some time

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