[petsc-dev] Regression tests

[Matthew Knepley]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> You can tell from the primary key what it is. If the primary key is
>> wrong, it does not help you in your scenario as it could be
>> misspelled, or intended to be put in another directory. This is dubious
>> at best.
>>
>
> I don't need the primary key to be "right" to have good diagnostics, I
> just need to know that the Test() declaration (which executes code at the
> time the test is created) is inconsistent. My error message tells you the
> line that is bad. This is important.
>
>
>>  We should have a discussion about whether we want to support this after
>> 3.3.
>>
>>
>
> What's the problem? Is builder.py having trouble figuring out how to link
> PETSc in general? Maybe it should use "make getlinklibs". ;-D
>
> Note that people occasionally ask for minimal builds for low-level
> functionality. Barry was even asking if it would be feasible to have a way
> to build only some KSPs, PCs, and matrix formats. I like that the option
> keeps us honest.
>
>
>>
>>
>  No no. Your original make log is in PETSC_ARCH/conf/make.log. It should
>> never be corrupted. You
>> remove the link at make.log.bkp.
>>
>
> Well, that's an interesting (and confusing) idea for how it *could* work
> some day, but it's not how it currently works.
>
>
>>
>>
>
>> Same way we do in the makefiles now. It has an attribute "complex",
>> "superlu", etc.
>>
>
> So what you're saying is that your system could be extended to do this?
> I'm not disagreeing, but I think my suggestion is more maintainable and
> extensible. As I said in my first reply, the differences are mostly
> cosmetic, but I think there is good reason to prefer the form I suggest.
> The important thing in either case is to have a database of tests so we can
> program behavior.
>

Obviously I disagree. I responded to the maintainability argument, but you
just ignored the response.


>  Some have these.
>
>
> Held separately?
>

Yep.

  Matt


> regressionRequirements = {'src/vec/vec/examples/tests/ex31':
>  set(['Matlab'])
>                           }
>
> --
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their
experiments lead.
-- Norbert Wiener
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