[petsc-dev] Introducing new "test harness" to PETSc

[Barry Smith]

  Yup, all these things need to be added.

> On Jan 17, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> > On Jan 17, 2017, at 8:13 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
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> >
> > Use ${DATAFILESPATH} like we do in all the legacy tests.
> >
> > Not working
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>   Why do you even listen to Jed, when you can listen to me. In this case the data files is in the PETSc share directory so you should use the ${PETSC_DIR} to point to it. Only files in the DATAFILESPATH directory should use $DATAFILESPATH
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> Okay, that worked. I have one test converted.
> 
> Gripes:
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>   1) How do I run an individual test run?
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> I use
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>   make -f gmakefile test searchin=plex
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> to run plex tests, and I think
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>   make -f gmakefile test searchin=plex*ex1
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> will work. However, how do I select ex1_2?
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>   2) How do I replace the output which exists with the output of the current test run?
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> This is amazingly useful after changes.
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>   3) How do I give extra arguments with the make interface, rather than test_harness?
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> Once I have all the functionality of my Python stuff,  I will throw it away.
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>   Thanks,
> 
>      Matt
> 
> >
> > arch-c-exodus-master/tests/src/dm/impls/plex/examples/tests/runex1_gmsh_3.sh -v
> > not ok dm_impls_plex_tests-ex1_gmsh_3 /PETSc3/petsc/petsc-dev/arch-c-exodus-master/bin/mpiexec -n 3 ../ex1 -filename /meshes/square.msh -interpolate 1 -dm_view > ex1_gmsh_3.tmp 2> runex1_gmsh_3.err
> >
> > when I have
> >
> >   test:
> >     suffix: gmsh_3
> >     nsize: 3
> >     args: -filename ${DATAFILESPATH}/meshes/square.msh -interpolate 1 -dm_view
> >
> >    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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> -- 
> 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