Re: [Boost-testing] Result statuses for run failures of MPI tests

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Result statuses for run failures of MPI tests
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-31 15:43:38

Hi Stevem

On May 31, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
>>
>> On May 30, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Jeremiah Willcock wrote:
>>
>>> On some platforms and compilers, several of the Boost.Graph.Parallel
>>> (libs/graph_parallel/test) tests compile and link correctly but
>>> produce a
>>> failure when run.  There is no information in these cases, either  
>>> in the
>>> form of program output or an error code.  One example of this is
>>> <URL:http://tinyurl.com/39noasn>.  Is there more information
>>> available to
>>> the test scripts but not reported?  Is there a way to at least get  
>>> an
>>> exit
>>> status or something from the tests?  There are similar failures on
>>> Windows
>>> as well, so an error/return code there would be useful as well.
>>> Thank you
>>> for any help you can give in tracking these down.
>>
>> That is strange.  This test runs to completion just fine.
>>
>> <snip>
>> EXIT STATUS: 0
>>
>> and the return code is zero.  Not sure why the test is being reported
>> as a fail.  Perhaps this is a process_jam_log failure as it's clearly
>> not a test failure.
>
> Hmmm.  process_jam_log seems to produce
> <run result="*succeed*" timestamp="*2010-05-31 07:16:08 UTC*" />
>
> Could it be that the fact that no output is shown is confusing
> the report XSL stylesheets?

Seems likely since, as you point out, PJL is writing success into the  
log.  Unfortunately I'm no XSL expert, any ideas how to debug or patch  
this?

-- Noel