[Cdash] [CMake] Setting up weekly tests using ctest

[Martin Apel]

Hi David,

I tried this out, it works like a charm. So easy!

Thanks a lot.

Martin

David Cole wrote:
> Make a "Weekly" build group for your CDash project. Name your builds
> according to some naming convention that makes sense to you
> (distinct/unique compared to the "Nightly" builds), and then simply
> assign those build names from those sites to the "Weekly" group.
>
> Let me know if you need more info : it should be really
> straightforward if you are the CDash project administrator.
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Martin Apel <martin.apel at simpack.de
> <mailto:martin.apel at simpack.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Dan,
>
>     that's what we do for nightly tests as well. The problem is more:
>     How do I tell CTest to submit tests to a separate "weekly" track
>     and have them visible in CDash separated from the nightly tests?
>
>     Martin
>
>
>     Dan Schmidt wrote:
>>     Hey Martin,
>>
>>     How about scheduling the type of test that you'd like to run with
>>     the OS scheduler. We run tests every couple of hours and do it
>>     with the Unix crontab and the Windows task scheduler.
>>
>>     ------
>>     Dan
>>
>>     > Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:46:13 +0200
>>     > From: martin.apel at simpack.de <mailto:martin.apel at simpack.de>
>>     > To: cdash at public.kitware.com <mailto:cdash at public.kitware.com>;
>>     cmake at cmake..org <mailto:cmake at cmake..org>
>>     > Subject: [Cdash] Setting up weekly tests using ctest
>>     >
>>     > Hi there,
>>     >
>>     > I am currently running nightly builds and accompanying tests
>>     using CMake
>>     > and CDash. However, our software is rather computationally
>>     expensive, so
>>     > we'd like to perform more extensive tests every weekend,
>>     because one
>>     > night is too short for these. I only found documentation on
>>     setting up
>>     > nightly, experimental and continuous builds (and tests), but not
>>     > arbitrary, e.g. weekly tests. I tried to explicitly set the --track
>>     > option of ctest to "Weekly", which succeeded, but the tests
>>     didn't show
>>     > up in CDash. Can anybody tell me, how to set up tests
>>     > for weekly intervals?
>>     >
>>     > Martin
>>     >
>>     >
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Martin Apel                                     Tel:     0049 8153 9288-47
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