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While digging into the issue, I found that most of the test jobs were first deleting their workspace and then copying the workspace of the base job, of roughly 1.8GBs, to their own workspace before running tests. This activity was taking roughly 10 minutes. This time was easily reduced by using the utility mklink, which allows creating directory links in windows. So now that the workspace for rest of the jobs were linked to the workspace of the head job, there was no need of deleting OR copying workspace. Girish, my colleague, later highlighted that I could also use “Use custom workspace” option available under “Advanced Project Options” of Jenkins. lol!
Well the problem with duplication is not just limited to code..
Ashish Parkhi 