Once the release is out the door (any moment now) the next big project is to
redo the test infrastructure to make keeping clean accurate tests a simple
reality. I am open to all kinds of proposals to do this properly (except any
proposal that reuses the current approach :-)).
Barry
On May 13, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> a) Switch the nightlies from make to Python
>
> Are you talking about compilation or running tests? Compilation should
> be irrelevant because all systems should produce the same result. I
> think testing is higher priority.
>
>> b) Change the categories to tags
>
> Yeah, just can't do this within the current make-based running system.
>
>> c) Simply parse parts of the output for numerical comparison
>
> It's useful to compare everything because otherwise, new clutter can
> show up unintentionally and won't be caught by testing.
