The information is this card is ancient and probably no longer accurate.
Test suites usually grow over time as more and more development time is spent on a projects. Overall run-time and performance of Cucumber suites in turn increases, too.
You can use the very same way Henning suggested for speeding up RSpec some time ago.
Put the following into features/support/deferred_garbage_collection.rb
Before do
DeferredGarbageCollection.start
end
After do
DeferredGarbageCollection.reconsider
end
We saw really huge improvement of overall execution time of the suites!
Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2012-07-17 09:16)