Re: [boost] [all][testing] Regression summary upgrades

Subject: Re: [boost] [all][testing] Regression summary upgrades
From: Adam Wulkiewicz (adam.wulkiewicz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-13 19:25:27

Adam Wulkiewicz wrote:
> Paul A. Bristow wrote:
>> Yellow is a bit discouraging, for example for Boost.Math where the 
>> details are much more
>> encouragingly green.
>
> Exactly. After seing it I personally get an impression that Boost is 
> not working in general, which of course is not true.
>
>> Is it easily possible to show the fraction of tests and/or platforms 
>> that pass?
>>
>> (However I accept that the requirements are different for libraries 
>> will zillions of tests compared
>> to those with few).
>
<snip>
>
> 4. Or more graphically. The cells for failures probably could be 
> divided into 2 colors vertically. The height of the yellow/orange bar 
> inside a cell could indicate the percentage of the failures (with 4 
> possible heights: <=25%, <=50%, <=75% and <=100%). With this we could 
> put the name of the most significant failure in the cell. This could 
> be nice actually but it's hard to predict how clear would it be. It 
> requires some testing.
>

This could look more or less like on the following picture (I hope it's 
ok to send images embedded in the email on the Boost list):

Regards,
Adam