perf: Improve test performance by parallelizing pytest

[AnsahMohammad]

While working on #67 , discovered that pytest -n X enables parallel test execution, where X is the number of cores. This can significantly reduce test execution time.

Though it didn’t resolve the issue in #67, it could substantially speed-up automated tests.

On my 8-core machine, runtime dropped from 43.67s to 20.07s.

[ahal]

Thanks, this seems reasonable to me!

However I'm not sure why those tests are failing.. Normally I'd dismiss the failures as not related to a change like this, but it's weird that only the py310 tests pass. So that leads me to think that it is something to do with the parallelization. Very strange.

I think we'll need to sort this before landing, this failure isn't happening on the main branch.

[ahal]

Requesting changes to investigate the test issue. If you get stuck, I can poke around when I have some time, though not sure when that will be

[AnsahMohammad]

Thanks for reviewing! I’ll look into the test failures and see if the parallelization is causing issues.

Requesting changes to investigate the test issue. If you get stuck, I can poke around when I have some time, though not sure when that will be

Thanks, I'll reach out if i get stuck

[AnsahMohammad]

Looks like the issue is definitely coming from parallelization since the failures changed when I tweaked the distribution strategy :/ . I'll try to dig deep and see if its fixable.