A suite that reached ninety seconds in 2025, measured again after a year of tests being added.
2025-09 1,414 tests 88s
2026-04 1,688 tests 104s
274 tests added, 16 seconds. which is on trend and is
heading for two minutes by 2027.
the threshold that matters is somewhere under two
minutes, so this is a budget with about a year left in
it — and the next win is not parallelism, which is
already at eight processes on an eight-core runner.Treating suite duration as a budget with a trend rather than as a number is what makes the next decision visible before it is urgent. The available levers are a larger runner, which costs money, or fewer integration tests, which costs coverage — and knowing that now is worth more than discovering it at two minutes.