[Insight-developers] voxel.jouy.inra.fr : Tests Dependencies

[Bill Lorensen]

Luis and Bill,

I found another group of tests that have dependencies
(Testing/IO/itkImageIODirection*). Is there a way in ctest to specify
dependencies between tests?

Bill

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> I believe there is a way of defining dependencies between tests.
>
> Bill Hoffman has been working on this for allowing groups
> of tests in parallel. The ctest equivalent of a "make -j 4".
>
> I agree that in general, having dependencies is a poor practice.
> However, there are cases in which it saves us from having to
> carry large datasets, for example in the Deformable registration
> tests there is a lot of data reuse (output of one test is input
> to another test...).
>
>
>   My 2 cents,
>
>
>      Luis
>
>
>
> ----------------------
> Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>
>> I see the problem with these tests. On the memtest machines, only 1/4
>> of the tests are run for each machine. These tests use output from
>> other tests. This is poor practice. Inputs to tests should always be
>> from the repository. The order of tests is not guaranteed.
>>
>> I can't fix them today, but tomorrow I will.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Luis Ibanez <luis.ibanez at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gaetan,
>>>
>>>
>>> The tests
>>>
>>>  itkImageIODirection2DTest12
>>>  itkVoxBoCUBImageIOTest6
>>>
>>> are failing on the submission from :  voxel.jouy.inra.fr
>>>
>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=124173
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what may be the source of the problem ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>   Luis
>>>
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