Very slow unit tests

[theseion]

Hi.
I'm not sure if this is really an issue since I haven't been using webflow for a long time yet. But I started testing my flows today and I'm experiencing test times I'm not used to. I have four test methods at the moment and the times are 12 seconds, 12 seconds, 5 seconds and 5 seconds (from the top).
I disabled the logger to make sure that's not part of the problem but the test times stayed the same.

My first two tests call methods so I thought I'd comment them out for testing and indeed the other two tests didn't take 12 seconds but 7 and 10.
So I can see a difference between calling a method and not calling one and also it seems to make a huge difference if the method is called near the loading of the framework.
But in the end 5 seconds for completing a simple transition is too much. I can watch flash videos faster!

Here's a part of my test file:

public class ManagerFlowTest extends AbstractXmlFlowExecutionTests{

	private DataManager dataManager;
	
	protected void setUp() {
			this.dataManager = new DataManager();
		    }
	 
	@Override
	protected FlowDefinitionResource getResource(
			FlowDefinitionResourceFactory resourceFactory) {
		return resourceFactory.createFileResource(
				"src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/flows/manager-flow.xml");
	}
	
	@Override
	protected void configureFlowBuilderContext(MockFlowBuilderContext builderContext) {
	    builderContext.registerBean("dataManager", dataManager);
	}

	
	//takes 12 seconds
	public void testStartManagerFlow() {
		MutableAttributeMap input = new LocalAttributeMap();
		MockExternalContext context = new MockExternalContext();
		
		startFlow(input, context);
		assertCurrentStateEquals("manager_welcome");
	}
	
	//takes 12 seconds
	public void testNewDossierAction(){
		MockExternalContext context = new MockExternalContext();
	    context.setEventId("new_dossier_action");
	    context.setCurrentUser("testUser");
	    
	    setCurrentState("manager_welcome");
	    resumeFlow(context);
	    assertCurrentStateEquals("view_dossier");

	}
	
        //takes 5 seconds or 7 seconds if first two tests are commented out
        //this is a simple transition without any actions in between, no 
        //calls to methods or anything similar
	public void testAdvancedSearchAction(){
		MockExternalContext context = new MockExternalContext();
	    context.setEventId("advanced_search_action");
	    
	    setCurrentState("manager_welcome");
	    resumeFlow(context);
	    assertCurrentStateEquals("advanced_search");
	}
	
	 //takes 5 seconds or 10 seconds if first two tests are commented out
        public void testDoSearchAction(){
		MockExternalContext context = new MockExternalContext();
	    context.setEventId("do_search_action");
	    
	    setCurrentState("manager_welcome");
	    resumeFlow(context);
	    //runs through "do_search" action state
	    assertCurrentStateEquals("search_results");
	}

}

Does anyone have a hint to why I'm experiencing this?

[theseion]

Update: My problem might be database related. Since DataManager is a facade that in turn calls some DAOs. I'll try to figure out how to get around this and then post what I've found out.

[theseion]

Ok. After creating an mock object of the DataManager with

this.dataManager = EasyMock.createMock(DataManager.class);

the init process still takes 7 seconds but every other test runs at normal speed (far below a second)

Thanks to all who wasted their time on me...