CDash:Documentation

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This page is the official CDash documentation.

CDash definitions

• Build: Single submission to the dashboard for a specific project, environment and build type.
• Build type: reference by CTest as Nightly, Experimental or Continuous. (see CMake documentation for more information).
• Site: Computer contributing builds to the dashboard. A site might belong to several projects and submit different build.
• Coverage: Number of lines of code actually tested. CDash/CTest currently supports gcov and bulleyes tools.
• Dynamic Analysis: reports the memory allocation/deallocations analysis for test, examples and executable for the project. Valgrind is currently supported by CTest/CDash.
• Nightly start time: starting time of the 24h window of the daily dashboard.
• Ajax: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a group of web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications.
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, is a computer scripting language, designed for producing dynamic web pages.
• SQL: Structured Query Language, is a database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database management systems.

Login to CDash

CDash uses secure login for users and adminsitrators. CDash does not store any plain text passwords in the database, therefore passwords cannot be recovered, even by system administrators.

Note: LDAP is not currently supported.

• To login, click on the 'Login' link at the top of the main CDash page or directly go to the user.php page http://myserver/CDash/user.php.
• If you don't have a login, click on the 'register' link on the top menu. In order to register, CDash requires a valid email address, your first name, last name and password. The institution is optional. CDash implements some security features to avoid robots to register.
• Once registered you are ready to type your email and password provided in the login screen.

My CDash

MyCDash page

Each user has its own personal section in CDash, where they can keep track of recent builds, submissions, claim sites and more.

My Profile

User can change their profile: First/Last name, email, institution and password from the the "My Profile" menu at the top of the "My CDash" page.

My Sites

As a site maintainer, it is useful to know if submissions have been missing for quite sometime.

Public projects

List of all the public projects stored in CDash. By definition, users registered in CDash can subscribe to any public projects.

Subscribe to project

Subscribing to public projects

If the project is public then users can subscribe to the project themselves, otherwise see section Project Roles.

1. Log into CDash (see Login to CDash
2. Under "Public projects" section click on [Subscribe to this project]
3. Select your role for the project: Normal user or Site maintainer if you are responsible for a machine sending periodic builds to the dashboard/
4. Add your CVS/SVN login for the project if you have any
5. Select your email preference
6. Click on subscribe