Estimated time for Bamboo build env is grossly incorrect

[Amy Lu]

The estimated time for completing the bamboo build for our project environment is usually over 30 mins. But in practice it gets done in about 5-6 minutes.
Having it so grossly incorrect is a problem. Having better estimates will help plan one's work.

I want to know how does Bamboo get the estimated remaining time for a building process and what could we do to improve the accuracy of the estimated time. Thanks in advance.

[Brent Villalobos]

I don't know if this applies to you, but the average time for a plan takes into account queue wait time while the average time for a job within in a plan does not.

[Amy Lu]

Thanks Brent.

[Sultan Maiyaki]

Hi Amy,

Could it be a case that you had a hung build before now? Thois is becaise the buidl duration is estimated based on heuritistics of previous builds

[Amy Lu]

Hi Sultan,

I didn't see any hung build before.

For this project, there is totally 16 times build. The average duration for the first 6 builds is 70 minutes. The average duration for next 4 times is 17 min. And the average duration for recent 6 builds is only 5 minutes.

Could the estimated remaining time be according to how many changes are committed instead of just based on heuritisitcs of previous builds?

[Amy Lu]

Thanks Sultan.