[CMake] Subset testing with CTest

[Robert Dailey]

I want to submit to dashboard as well, preferably. In addition, I also
want tests of my dependencies (which are usually above the current
directory, elsewhere in the tree) to be built & ran as well.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:54 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> Similar to running 'make' in a sub-directory to build just that
> directory and below... running 'ctest' in a sub-directory will just
> run the tests for that directory.
>
> Are you asking to be able just to run the tests, or to submit just
> those tests to a dashboard?
>
> Just running them is already possible. Sending them to a dashboard,
> you'd have to use the -R matching technique...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Leif Walsh <leif.walsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I prefix test names with the name of the component they test, so
>>
>> a/tests/CMakeLists.txt:
>> add_test(a/test_foo test_foo)
>>
>> b/tests/CMakeLists.txt:
>> add_test(b/test_foo test_foo)
>>
>> Then, ctest -R '^a/' from toplevel works.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 14:12, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The source repository at our company is structured for two products.
>>> Both products have a large amount of shared targets, but there are
>>> certain subdirectories in the tree that are product-specific. Each of
>>> the product-specific targets have their own unit tests (and all common
>>> targets have them as well).
>>>
>>> When I want to build Product A, all I have to do is CD into product
>>> A's subdirectory and initiate a build from there. I'd like a similar
>>> feature for testing -- depending on which subdirectory we are in, we
>>> can determine what to build, what to test.
>>>
>>> I was looking over the information on the CMake wiki here:
>>> http://cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Testing_With_CTest
>>>
>>> There is a section on specifying subsets. I can use regular
>>> expressions or test indices, neither of which will work for our case.
>>> There needs to be a way to specify tests for a single product.
>>>
>>> Right now the only thing we can do is run "ctest -D Experimental" at
>>> the root, but this builds and tests both products at once. I want to
>>> be able to only build and test Product A. Can I do this now? Is there
>>> some workaround I can use, or perhaps a feature I'm not aware of?
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