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

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Jan 17, 2017, at 8:13 PM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Use ${DATAFILESPATH} like we do in all the legacy tests.
>> >
>> > Not working
>>
>>   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
>
>
> Okay, that worked. I have one test converted.
>
> Gripes:
>

>From the answers to these, it sounds like I will end up writing a piece of
Python around this that
does largely what my existing Python script does. I wanted to avoid this.

  Matt


>   1) How do I run an individual test run?
>
> I use
>
>   make -f gmakefile test searchin=plex
>
> to run plex tests, and I think
>
>   make -f gmakefile test searchin=plex*ex1
>
> will work. However, how do I select ex1_2?
>
>   2) How do I replace the output which exists with the output of the
> current test run?
>
> This is amazingly useful after changes.
>
>   3) How do I give extra arguments with the make interface, rather than
> test_harness?
>
> Once I have all the functionality of my Python stuff,  I will throw it
> away.
>
>   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
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> 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
>



-- 
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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