[petsc-dev] plans for testing examples?

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  How do you map the loops in some of the shell scripts in the makefiles?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not all the loop constructs are parsed now, but I can add that in an
>>> hour or so. It'll look like
>>>
>>> with Executable('ex19.c'):
>>>   for mtype in 'aij baij sbaij'.split():
>>>     for vecscatter in 'rsend ssend alltoall'.split():
>>>       Test(id=('thename', mtype, vecscatter), args='-mat_type %s
>>> -vecscatter_%s' % (mtype,vecscatter), compare='ex19_thename')
>>>
>>
>> This cannot yet do what I need for ex62. I have a 'setup' directive that
>> executes code before the test. I like
>> this done for sets of tests to save time.
>>
>
> I would create a setup object and refer to it.
>
> with Executable('ex62.c'):
>   quadrature = dict()
>   for dim in 1 2 3:
>     for order in 1 2 3 4:
>       quadrature[(dim,order)] = GeneratedFile('ex62.h',
> command=[os.path.join(petsc_dir,'bin','pythonscripts','PetscGenerateFEMQuadrature.py'),
> ...])
>   Test(..., requires=quadrature(2,3))
>   # ... more tests, sharing one or more generated files
>
> Each test, or group of tests, will normally be run in its own private
> temporary directory. A sequence of tests sharing the same dependencies can
> reuse the generated file, but if you test with -j48, members of the same
> group may be executing concurrently.
>

Okay, I am fine with this. Where is the code so we can start doing it.

   Matt

-- 
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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