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This commit installs and enables `pytest-xdist` which runs test cases across multiple processes.
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It might be nice to have some form of documentation somewhere that reference that we do this and why. I'm not sure where exactly as we do not having anything about our testing practices beyond some guidance on factories and the architecture reference document so far. So perhaps a couple of sentences in that document would suffice. Just something to say we use xdist and that in doing so test independence is even more important than normal
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This PR installs and enables
pytest-xdistwhich runs test cases across multiple processes.Pros: Decreased test suite execution time.
Cons: Increased chance of failures due to interdependant test cases, additional dependency.