Speed up your builds by 9.5% instantly!

Nope, despite the tone of the title, I'm not selling a product, even though it does sound like a sales pitch. But I did just do this on the builds on my team, and I thought I'd share. And though it's really not a revolutionary process, I've removed a guaranteed 1 minute and 6 seconds from every build cycle by deleting one line of code in one production class, and refactoring a constant into an injectable property in another.

The deleted line was in a method that is invoked in 3 different test:

Thread.Sleep(12000);

And the line converted from constant to injectable property was:

Thread.Sleep(30000);

Since our average build time over the last week is around 11:36, and these two edits save 66 seconds per build, I've achieved a time savings of 9.47% virtually instantly.

So the moral of the story is this: any time you feel a desire to include Thread.Sleep in production code, you need to go stick your head in a freezer until the feeling subsides.

P.S. I think it may be important to note that at least one of those two offending lines was written by me.