Investigate Lupo CI Tests - Can we speed them up

[jrhoads]

Currently Lupo CI tests take around 20 minutes give or take to run the entire suite.
This can

• slow down the pace of development
• use computing resources for CI
• hide underlying speed issue with the code

We have done some work to fix this by running the tests in parallel (previously tests were taking 30-40 minutes).
Our current approach splits the specs into 10 groups and runs them in parallel. The overall speed of the test is then the speed of the slowest parallel group.

This investigation would be to identify which specs/tests are taking the most time and see if we can make progress on reducing the overall time for the test suite.

[jrhoads]

Closing this grouping of work.

Overall we were able to make improvements that resulted in a reduction of the total runtime to about 7 minutes in change.
Roughly a 300% improvement.