Knapsack Pro

Speed up your tests run 1 hour test suite in 2 minutes
with optimal parallelisation on your CI

Split your tests evenly on parallel CI nodes to run faster CI builds and save time.

Without Knapsack Pro

you have to wait 20 minutes for slow tests running too long on red node

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Run fast parallel CI build with Knapsack Pro

CI build completes work in only 10 minutes because Knapsack Pro ensures all parallel nodes finish work at a similar time

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You can even run 20 parallel nodes to complete your CI build in 2 minutes

How it works

1. Install Knapsack Pro client in your project


2. Add Knapsack Pro client to your current CI server and run your tests in parallel

Knapsack Pro how it works with CI server

3. Update your CI server config file to run tests in parallel with Knapsack Pro

Knapsack Pro in Queue Mode will split tests in a dynamic way across parallel CI nodes to ensure each CI node finishes work at a similar time. Thanks to that your CI build time is as fast as possible. It works with many supported CI servers.

How to install it

Programming Language Supported test runners Installation guide Knapsack Pro Library
README / Source		 FAQ
Ruby RSpec, Cucumber, Minitest, test-unit, Spinach, Turnip Install knapsack_pro gem FAQ
JavaScript Cypress.io Install @knapsack-pro/cypress FAQ
JavaScript Jest Install @knapsack-pro/jest FAQ
JavaScript / TypeScript Any test runner in JavaScript How to build native integration with Knapsack Pro API to run tests in parallel for any test runner @knapsack-pro/core FAQ

Do you use other programming language or test runner? Let us know.

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Trusted solution

Join the teams optimizing their tests with Knapsack Pro.

We've been really enjoying Knapsack Pro, it's been saving us a ton of time.

Devin Brown Software Engineer at Pivotal

This is a fantastic product, it's been a total game-changer for us.

Geoff Harcourt CTO at CommonLit

We are using CircleCI and we noticed that builds were being limited by the slowest parallelized container. Knapsack Pro was really east to setup and we saw huge improvements right away. Thank you for making this tool!

Martin Sieniawski Software Engineer at Collage

Knapsack Pro has helped us build an insanely fast and scalable build pipeline with almost no setup or maintenance.

Tim Lucas Co-founder of buildkite.com

Knapsack Pro saves us hours of engineer waiting time every week, and is the best solution for keeping our tests load balanced that we've used to date.

Michael Amygdalidis Senior Software Engineer at Popular Pays

I've been playing with Queue Mode. Love it! Wow, I love how fast it goes.

Michael Menne CTO at humanagency.org

I just logged into my account expecting it to say that I needed to add a credit card and was so surprised and delighted to see the trial doesn't count usage by calendar days but by testing days! This is incredible! I love it!!!

I just wanted to say that I really appreciate that small but very huge feature. Thank you for being so thoughtful :)

Shannon Baffoni Senior Software Engineer
at Blue Bottle Coffee

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Features that make your tests perform better

  • Queue mode see video

    Dynamic tests allocation across CI nodes. It ensures all parallel CI nodes finish work at a similar time to get the fastest CI build time.

    Queue Mode solves CI node bottlenecks impacting your parallel tests split:

    • random test files execution time (i.e. E2E tests)
    • flaky tests (retrying test can slow down CI node)
    • failed tests often leave room on CI node to run more tests
    • overloaded CI node can become a bottleneck

  • Regular mode see video

    Test suite split based on time execution. Generates subset of test suite per CI node before running tests.

  • Fallback mode

    Network issues? Not a problem, run tests anyway! Auto switch to the fallback mode to not depend on Knapsack Pro API.

  • Auto split slow test file by test examples

    A single slow RSpec test file can be auto split by test examples between parallel jobs

  • Supported test runners

    Ruby: RSpec, Minitest, Test::Unit, Cucumber, Spinach, Turnip.

    JavaScript: Cypress.io, Jest

    Do you use different programming language or test runner? Let us know in the poll

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Problem you want to solve

Get faster feedback from your favourite CI server

  • save time & money
  • deliver features faster
  • catch errors earlier
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How much can you save with faster tests on your CI?

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Monthly you can save hours
and up to $
on faster development cycle.

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