Re: [boost] [testing] Proposal - regression tests results display upgrade

Subject: Re: [boost] [testing] Proposal - regression tests results display upgrade
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-13 10:42:07

Paul A. Bristow wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Adam
> Wulkiewicz
>> Would it make sense to use some more descriptive color/naming scheme?
>> In particular it would be nice to distinguish between the actual failures and
> the
>> situations when the compilation of a test took too much time or an output file
> was
>> too big.
>> Would it make sense to also distinguish between compilation, linking and run
> failure?
>
> +1  definitely.
>
> This is particularly a problem for Boost.Math - the largest library in Boost, by
> far, in both code and tests, with several tests that often time out.
>
> Various summary counts of passes and fails would be good as well.
>
> It takes a while to scan the current (nice) display, eg
>
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/math.html

Ok, I managed to find some time to play with it.
AFAIU the reports are generated using the code from: 
https://github.com/boostorg/boost/tree/develop/tools/regression/src/report, 
is that correct?

The first change is simple since I'd like to see if I'm doing everything 
right. I changed the way how those specific fails are displayed. If the 
compilation fails and at the end of the compiler output (25 last 
characters) one of the following strings can be found:
- "File too big"
- "time limit exceeded"
the test is considered as "unfinished compilation" and displayed on the 
library results page as a yellow cell with a link named "fail?". So it's 
distinguishable from the normal "fail".

Here is the PR: https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/25

I only tested it locally on a test done by 1 runner for Geometry and 
Math libraries.
Is there a way I could test it on results sent by all of the runners?
How is this program executed?
Is there some script which e.g. checks some directory and passes all of 
the tests as command arguments?

Regards,
Adam