I gave a presentation titled Happier Developers and Happier Software through Distributed Testing at Apache Big Data 2016, which detailed how our distributed unit testing framework has decreased the runtime of Apache Hadoop's unit test suite by 60x from 8.5 hours to about 8 minutes, and the substantial productivity improvements that are possible when developers can easily run and interact with the test suite.

The infrastructure is general enough to accommodate any software project. We wrote frontends for both C++/gtest and Java/Maven.

This effort started as a Cloudera hackathon project that Todd and I worked on two years ago, and I'm very glad we got it across the line. Furthermore, it's also open-source, and we'd love to see it rolled out to more projects.

Slides: pptx

Source-code: cloudera/dist_test