test: check that benchmark tests are minimal

Check that benchmark tests are not running longer than necessary by
confirming that they only produce one set of configs to report on per
benchmark file.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/21046
Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/common/benchmark.js b/test/common/benchmark.js
index 1fd4476ba5..f8952a8b9a 100644
--- a/test/common/benchmark.js
+++ b/test/common/benchmark.js
@@ -20,10 +20,27 @@ function runBenchmark(name, args, env) {
 
   const mergedEnv = Object.assign({}, process.env, env);
 
-  const child = fork(runjs, argv, { env: mergedEnv });
+  const child = fork(runjs, argv, { env: mergedEnv, stdio: 'pipe' });
+  child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
+
+  let stdout = '';
+  child.stdout.on('data', (line) => {
+    stdout += line;
+  });
+
   child.on('exit', (code, signal) => {
     assert.strictEqual(code, 0);
     assert.strictEqual(signal, null);
+    // This bit makes sure that each benchmark file is being sent settings such
+    // that the benchmark file runs just one set of options. This helps keep the
+    // benchmark tests from taking a long time to run. Therefore, each benchmark
+    // file should result in three lines of output: a blank line, a line with
+    // the name of the benchmark file, and a line with the only results that we
+    // get from testing the benchmark file.
+    assert.ok(
+      /^(?:\n.+?\n.+?\n)+$/.test(stdout),
+      `benchmark file not running exactly one configuration in test: ${stdout}`
+    );
   });
 }