title: Ideas and tips for temporal unit-testing?
body: <p>Has anyone done temporal unit-testing? </p>
  
  <p>I'm not even sure if such lingo has been coined or not, but the point is to test that operations perform within temporal limits. I have a few algorithms and I want to test that their execution time increases as expected, and I guess similar testing could be used for IO, and what not, kind of like test_timeout or something. </p>
  
  <p>However because the hardware affects the speed of execution it doesn't seem trivial. So I was wondering if anyone has tried this sort of thing before, and if they would could share their experience.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> Trying to compile a list of stuff that needs to be taken care of in this kind of situation</p>