feat: Add parallel test execution to speed up quality checks (#186) (#190)

* feat: Add parallel test execution to speed up quality checks

Implements pytest-xdist to run tests across multiple CPU cores,
dramatically reducing quality check execution time from 3-5 minutes
to ~38 seconds (5-8x speedup). Performance tests are kept sequential
to maintain accurate benchmarking.

Resolves #186

* fix: Fix SQLite concurrency issues in acronym normalization tests

Replace custom cache fixture with isolated_test_cache to prevent
database conflicts during parallel test execution. Each test now
gets its own isolated database preventing race conditions and
readonly database errors.

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Co-authored-by: florath-ai-assistant[bot] <Andreas.Florath@telekom.de>

Author: coding-ai-assistant[bot]

pyproject.toml

@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ dev = [
     "pytest-asyncio>=0.21.0",
     "pytest-cov>=4.0.0",
     "pytest-benchmark>=4.0.0",
+    "pytest-xdist>=3.0.0",
     "psutil>=5.9.0",
     "black>=23.0.0",
     "mypy>=1.0.0",

scripts/run-quality-checks.sh

@@ -98,10 +98,14 @@ run_check "Example execution" python scripts/check-examples.py
 # 8. Mypy type checking (slower)
 run_check "Mypy type checking" mypy src/ --strict
 
-# 9. Pytest with coverage (slowest)
-run_check "Pytest with coverage" pytest --cov=src --cov-report=term-missing tests/
-
-# 10. Performance benchmarks (mandatory)
+# 9. Pytest with coverage (slowest - now parallelized)
+# Use -n auto to automatically detect CPU cores and run tests in parallel
+# Exclude performance tests to avoid pytest-xdist conflicts with benchmarks
+# Note: Coverage collection works correctly with pytest-xdist
+run_check "Pytest with coverage" pytest -n auto --cov=src --cov-report=term-missing tests/ --ignore=tests/performance/
+
+# 10. Performance benchmarks (mandatory - run without parallelization)
+# Benchmark tests should run sequentially for accurate timing
 run_check "Performance benchmarks" pytest tests/performance/ --benchmark-only
 
 # Final summary

tests/unit/test_acronym_normalization.py

@@ -1,34 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-import os
-import sqlite3
-from pathlib import Path
-
 import pytest
 
-from aletheia_probe.cache import (
-    CacheManager,
-    get_cache_manager,
-    reset_cache_manager,
-    set_cache_manager,
-)
 from aletheia_probe.normalizer import InputNormalizer
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
-def setup_cache_for_testing():
-    """Set up a temporary cache database for testing."""
-    test_db_path = Path("./test_cache.db")
-    if test_db_path.exists():
-        test_db_path.unlink()  # Ensure a clean slate
-
-    test_cache = CacheManager(db_path=test_db_path)
-    set_cache_manager(test_cache)
-    yield test_cache
-    reset_cache_manager()
-    if test_db_path.exists():
-        test_db_path.unlink()
-
-
 @pytest.fixture
 def normalizer():
     """Fixture for InputNormalizer."""
@@ -53,18 +28,18 @@ def test_clean_text_html_unescape(normalizer):
     )
 
 
-def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_basic_match(setup_cache_for_testing):
+def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_basic_match(isolated_test_cache):
     """Test _are_conference_names_equivalent with basic equivalent names."""
-    cache = setup_cache_for_testing
+    cache = isolated_test_cache
     assert cache._are_conference_names_equivalent(
         "Journal of Science", "Journal of Science"
     )
     assert cache._are_conference_names_equivalent("The Conference", "The Conference")
 
 
-def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_stop_words(setup_cache_for_testing):
+def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_stop_words(isolated_test_cache):
     """Test _are_conference_names_equivalent with stop words variations."""
-    cache = setup_cache_for_testing
+    cache = isolated_test_cache
     # "and" vs "new" issue from logs
     name1 = "journal of process management and new technologies international"
     name2 = "journal of process management new technologies international"
@@ -76,18 +51,18 @@ def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_stop_words(setup_cache_for_testing):
 
 
 def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_case_and_html_entities(
-    setup_cache_for_testing,
+    isolated_test_cache,
 ):
     """Test _are_conference_names_equivalent with case and HTML entities."""
-    cache = setup_cache_for_testing
+    cache = isolated_test_cache
     name1 = "International Journal of Scientific Research & Management Studies"
     name2 = "international journal of scientific research & management studies"
     assert cache._are_conference_names_equivalent(name1, name2)
 
 
-def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_year_and_ordinal(setup_cache_for_testing):
+def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_year_and_ordinal(isolated_test_cache):
     """Test _are_conference_names_equivalent with year and ordinal variations."""
-    cache = setup_cache_for_testing
+    cache = isolated_test_cache
     name1 = "2023 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision"
     name2 = "IEEE Conference on Computer Vision"
     assert cache._are_conference_names_equivalent(name1, name2)
@@ -97,9 +72,9 @@ def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_year_and_ordinal(setup_cache_for_testin
     assert cache._are_conference_names_equivalent(name3, name4)
 
 
-def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_substrings(setup_cache_for_testing):
+def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_substrings(isolated_test_cache):
     """Test _are_conference_names_equivalent with substring matches for longer names."""
-    cache = setup_cache_for_testing
+    cache = isolated_test_cache
     name1 = "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems"
     name2 = "Neural Information Processing Systems"
     assert cache._are_conference_names_equivalent(name1, name2)
@@ -108,11 +83,11 @@ def test_are_conference_names_equivalent_substrings(setup_cache_for_testing):
     assert not cache._are_conference_names_equivalent("AI", "AAAI")
 
 
-def test_store_acronym_mapping_with_equivalent_names(setup_cache_for_testing):
+def test_store_acronym_mapping_with_equivalent_names(isolated_test_cache):
     """
     Test that store_acronym_mapping does not log a warning when overwriting with an equivalent name.
     """
-    cache = setup_cache_for_testing
+    cache = isolated_test_cache
     acronym = "IJSRMS"
     full_name1 = "international journal of scientific research & management studies"
     full_name2 = (