[petsc-users] Using PETSc Testing System

[Matthew Knepley]

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 10:19 AM Jacob Faibussowitsch <jacob.fai at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Our testing framework was pretty much tailor-made for the PETSc src tree
> and as such has many hard-coded paths and decisions. I’m going to go out on
> a limb and say you probably won’t get this to work...
>

I think we can help you get this to work. I have wanted to generalize the
test framework for a long time. Everything is build by

  confg/gmakegentest.py

and I think we can get away with just changing paths here and everything
will work.

  Thanks!

     Matt


> That being said, one of the “base” paths that the testing harness uses to
> initially find tests is the `TESTSRCDIR` variable in
> `${PETSC_DIR}/gmakefile.test`. It is currently defined as
> ```
> # TESTSRCDIR is always relative to gmakefile.test
> #  This must be before includes
> mkfile_path := $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))
> TESTSRCDIR := $(dir $(mkfile_path))src
> ```
> You should start by changing this to
> ```
> # TESTSRCDIR is always relative to gmakefile.test
> #  This must be before includes
> mkfile_path := $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))
> TESTSRCDIR ?= $(dir $(mkfile_path))src
> ```
> That way you could run your tests via
> ```
> $ make test TESTSRCDIR=/path/to/your/src/dir
> ```
> I am sure there are many other modifications you will need to make.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jacob Faibussowitsch
> (Jacob Fai - booss - oh - vitch)
>
> > On Mar 27, 2023, at 06:14, Daniele Prada <daniele.prada85 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I would like to use the PETSc Testing System for testing a package that
> I am developing.
> >
> > I have read the PETSc developer documentation and have written some
> tests using the PETSc Test Description Language. I am going through the
> files in ${PETSC_DIR}/config but I am not able to make the testing system
> look into the directory tree of my project.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Daniele
>
>

-- 
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

https://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/ <http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~knepley/>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20230327/da01af47/attachment-0001.html>