[cmake-developers] CTest: Request review of topic "ctest-fix-run-serial"

[Nils Gladitz]

On 27.10.2013 15:48, David Cole wrote:
> It's the tests in all the other projects in the world, that have not 
> taken advantage of parallel testing yet that you will have to be 
> concerned about. (For a notable example, the CDash project cannot use 
> parallel testing. It's tests are highly dependent on order, and can 
> only be done serially as the tests in its suite do not use the DEPENDS 
> property to specify order, they rely on the default ordering. You can 
> verify this by running a CDash dashboard with any proposed build of 
> CMake/ctest...)
>
> In serial testing, the default ordering of the tests should match the 
> order of the add_test calls encountered during CMakeLists processing.
>
>
> HTH,
> David C.
>

Thanks David!

That makes a lot of sense.
I merged the topic to next.

Nils