[petsc-dev] git status to test list

Jed Brown jed at jedbrown.org
Mon Jul 6 15:48:57 CDT 2020


Barry Smith <bsmith at petsc.dev> writes:

>   We should be more clever than checking just examples but also check source code. If, for example, only KSP is changed then tests could skip the sys/vec/mat levels saving time.
>
>   If we did this in the pipeline they could be significantly faster; all the time saved not testing sys to mat for Matt's changes :-)
>
>   Is there a fallacy here?

I think we could pretty readily do this at the granularity of package. Significantly harder (would need to interface with a coverage tool) to do it at finer granularity.

What fraction of our testing time is currently at petscmat and below?


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