User defined executor - Several levels slow down test execution

[BenHaramboure]

Hi,

My team has rewritten some venom test scenarios with 2 levels of User defined executors ( a test scenario calls a user defined executor having the route, assertions...per step, this executor calls a second user defined executor having less specific data such as headers, certificates, high-level assertions) in order to :

• have unified generic approach
• avoid repeating code
• lighten scenarios implementation

I've done a simple benchmark locally : simple http calls vs 2 levels of user defined executors with 4 calls each. It seems like time of parsing for the executors layers increases time by 6* (see screenshot below)

As we have hundreds of API tests relying on venom executed frequently, the time of execution for those significantly increased (about times 7).

Is there anything we can do to improve the time of execution ? (those are mostly REST call, they shouldn't take more than tens of seconds each)

Thanks!

cc @gbahezre