How to speed up grails test execution

Question

While developing a Grails 1.0.5 app I\'m appalled at how slow the grails test-app command is. Even though the actual tests take just ~10 seconds, the whole exec

Answer 1

Please see my answer here. A plugin relying on a poorly defined maven artifact can cause grails to go and look every time for a newer version.

Grails very slow to resolve certain dependencies