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Checkstyle and testrunner libraries bloat exercises

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by inspecting the extracted exercise's checkstyle-runner and lib/testrunner directories, using k2015 Viikko03_078.Fotari as the size baseline. Determine which classes are unnecessary and measure the extracted directory again after processing. Done means the bundled libraries are smaller while the exercise and its tests still work.

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Description

Here is a du -ch after extracting an exercise (k2015 Viikko03_078.Fotari):

8.0K    ./src
32M ./checkstyle-runner
16K ./test
18M ./lib/testrunner
21M ./lib
71M .
71M total

The exercise comes with 18.6MB of its own stuff in the root directory, which is fine. We should try to compress the rest though. We should send checkstyle-runner and testrunner through a tool that strips unnecessary classes.

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Ruby
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