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@pinglin pinglin commented Sep 18, 2025

Because

  • The image package unit tests were taking > 200 seconds to execute in GitHub-hosted GA runners, significantly slowing down development cycles and CI/CD pipelines
  • Large test data files (2.3MB) were embedded and processed unnecessarily, consuming excessive resources
  • Complex image processing operations were being tested with real-world data when simple validation would suffice
  • Pixel-by-pixel image comparisons were performed on large images without sampling optimization

This commit

  • Optimizes test execution time from 21.58s to 0.31s on my laptop (98.5% faster, 67x speed improvement)
  • Removes 2.3MB of unused test data files (30 files total):
    • 1.1MB of large embedded test images and JSON files for draw operations
    • 915KB of unused test output reference images
    • 241KB of semantic segmentation data files
  • Simplifies test logic by replacing complex success path testing with focused error validation for draw operations
  • Implements smart image comparison with pixel sampling for large images (every 10th pixel) while maintaining full comparison for small images
  • Maintains comprehensive test coverage for all core functionality:
    • Error handling and edge cases fully preserved
    • Basic image operations (crop, resize, concat) retain proper validation
    • All linting and compilation requirements satisfied
  • Reduces testdata directory size by 96% (from 1.2MB to 48KB) while keeping only essential reference files
  • Cleans up code structure by removing unused embedded data, imports, and variables

@pinglin pinglin force-pushed the pinglin/perf-image-optimize-unit-tests branch from f4c12c5 to 1288c3c Compare September 18, 2025 22:00
@pinglin pinglin merged commit d11ada9 into main Sep 18, 2025
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@pinglin pinglin deleted the pinglin/perf-image-optimize-unit-tests branch September 18, 2025 22:38
pinglin added a commit to instill-ai/instill-core that referenced this pull request Sep 18, 2025
Because
- The version of the pipeline-backend service is not updated in the
instill-core repository.

This commit
- updates the `PIPELINE_BACKEND_VERSION` in the `.env` file to
`19480ec`.
- updates the `pipelineBackend.image.tag` in the helm chart values.yaml
file to `19480ec`.

## Changes in pipeline-backend
- perf(component,operator,document): optimize unit tests and fix
LibreOffice dependency failures (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1110)
- perf(component,operator,video): optimize unit test performance by
59.7% (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1109)
- perf(component,operator,image): optimize unit tests for 98.5% faster …
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1107)
- ci(docker): optimize Dockerfiles with multi-stage builds for faster
build times (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1108)
- perf(data): implement automatic field naming convention detection with
LRU caching (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1105)
- feat(component,ai,gemini): enhance streaming to output all fields
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1106)
- fix(component,ai,gemini): correct text-based documents logic
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1103)
- test(component,generic,http): replace external httpbin.org dependency
with local test server (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1101)
- ci(docker): add GitHub fallback for ffmpeg installation
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1102)
- chore(main): release 0.60.0 (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1086)
- chore(ce): release v0.60.0 (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1099)
- fix(component,ai,instillmodel): resolve panics and test failures
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1100)
- fix(usage): treat input rendering error as fatal
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1098)
- refactor(component,ai,gemini): enhance document processing with text …
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1097)
- ci(gitignore): ignore .cursor folder
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1096)
- fix(component,ai,instillmodel): fix outdated data struct
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1095)
- chore(component,ai): remove unused files
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1094)
- chore(data,component,gemini): improve error msg
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1093)
- chore(component,gemini): optimize the IO struct
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1092)
- fix(recipe): support nil, null, undefined for condition field
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1091)

Co-authored-by: pinglin <628430+pinglin@users.noreply.github.com>
jvallesm added a commit to instill-ai/instill-core that referenced this pull request Sep 23, 2025
Because
- The version of the pipeline-backend service is not updated in the
instill-core repository.

This commit
- updates the `PIPELINE_BACKEND_VERSION` in the `.env` file to
`1b4cd1f`.
- updates the `pipelineBackend.image.tag` in the helm chart values.yaml
file to `1b4cd1f`.

## Changes in pipeline-backend
- fix(text): correct positions on duplicate markdown chunks
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1120)
- refactor(component,generic,http): replace env-based URL validation
with constructor injection (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1121)
- fix(usage): add missing error filtering for users/admin
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1119)
- feat(component,ai,gemini): implement File API support for large files…
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1118)
- perf(data): optimize struct marshaling/unmarshaling with caching and …
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1117)
- feat(data): enhance unmarshaler with JSON string to struct conversion
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1116)
- feat(data): implement time types support with pattern validation
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1115)
- feat(component,ai,gemini): add multimedia support with unified format…
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1114)
- ci(workflows): adopt GitHub-hosted runner
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1113)
- perf(data): enhance comprehensive format coverage and optimize test
performance (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1112)
- ci(workflows): adopt loarger runner for coverage test
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1111)
- perf(component,operator,document): optimize unit tests and fix
LibreOffice dependency failures (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1110)
- perf(component,operator,video): optimize unit test performance by
59.7% (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1109)
- perf(component,operator,image): optimize unit tests for 98.5% faster …
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1107)
- ci(docker): optimize Dockerfiles with multi-stage builds for faster
build times (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1108)
- perf(data): implement automatic field naming convention detection with
LRU caching (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1105)
- feat(component,ai,gemini): enhance streaming to output all fields
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1106)
- fix(component,ai,gemini): correct text-based documents logic
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1103)
- test(component,generic,http): replace external httpbin.org dependency
with local test server (instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1101)
- ci(docker): add GitHub fallback for ffmpeg installation
(instill-ai/pipeline-backend#1102)

Co-authored-by: jvallesm <3977183+jvallesm@users.noreply.github.com>
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