[Insight-developers] Tests take too long to run

[Bill Hoffman]

The shorter the better.   If you can be shorter without losing coverage, 
I would say go for it.

-Bill
 

At 01:48 PM 3/7/2003, Joshua Cates wrote:
>I've reduced the run time on the ...SegmentationLevelSet...Tests.  Let me 
>know if they need to be even shorter.
>
>Josh.
>
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>On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Ting Chen wrote:
>
>> I will take care of itkGibbsTest and itkDeformableTest
>> 
>> ting
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Hoffman" <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
>> To: <insight-developers@public.kitware.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:35 AM
>> Subject: [Insight-developers] Tests take too long to run
>> 
>> 
>> > I am working on upgrading the vnl used by ITK.   I want to make sure
>> > that all the tests are still passing.   However, it takes a loooong time
>> > to run all the tests/examples in ITK.   There are only a few offending
>> tests
>> > that take up most of the time.  In the notes for this build:
>> > hythloth.­kitware Linux-gcc321
>> > Brad shows the time used by each test.    Most of the tests only use about
>> > 1% of the total time, however these 8 tests use up 67% of the total time
>> > it takes to run the tests:
>> >
>> >    100.00 %   976.47 s   TOTAL
>> >      11.70 %   114.23 s
>> Testing/Code/BasicFilters/itkBloxBoundaryPointImageToBloxBoundaryProfileImag
>> eFilterTest
>> >      11.55 %   112.74 s
>> Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkImageRegistrationMethodTest_15
>> >      10.61 %   103.57 s
>> Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkThresholdSegmentationLevelSetImageFilterTest
>> >       9.18 %    89.60 s   Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkGibbsTest
>> >       8.07 %    78.83 s   Testing/Code/Install
>> >       7.70 %    75.20 s
>> Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkCannySegmentationLevelSetImageFilterTest
>> >       6.39 %    62.40 s
>> Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkLaplacianSegmentationLevelSetImageFilterTest
>> >       5.10 %    49.83 s   Testing/Code/Algorithms/itkDeformableTest
>> >
>> >
>> > The turn around time is just too long.   So, I am guess people just do not
>> > run the tests as often as they should.    Can the authors of these tests
>> > please look into reducing the amount of time it takes to run them.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> > -Bill
>> >
>> >
>> >
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