[Cdash] Proposal: Splitting Failing Test from Passing tests

Julien Jomier julien.jomier at kitware.com
Thu May 1 21:33:32 UTC 2008


Luis,

Can you log a feature request at dash.org/Bug?
I'll try to have this done before the release.

Julien

Bill Lorensen wrote:
> I agree. This should have been done from the start, but we never did
> it for some reason.
> 
> Bill
> 
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>> The standard Dashboard has a column for Failing Test and
>> another column for Passing Tests.
>>
>> However, when clicking on the entries in these two columns the
>> user is sent to the same page, that contains both the failing
>> and passing tests. The failing tests are conveniently listed
>> at the top.
>>
>> Most of the time, when a user click on the failing tests entry,
>> she/he is only interested in looking at the failing test.
>> However the time to generate the page is penalized for
>> the (typically larger) number of passing tests.
>>
>> I would like to suggest to split both lists, so that when
>> the user clicks on the "failing tests" entry in the top
>> leve dashboard, the returning page displays only the failing
>> tests, and not all of them.
>>
>>
>> Does anybody see a drawback in doing this  ?
>>
>>
>>   Thanks
>>
>>
>>      Luis
>>
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