[Insight-developers] [ITK Community] Script for Remote Module testing

Thu Jan 30 12:43:21 EST 2014

Of course you can always set up cdash filters to present customized
views and save those as bookmarks,

Bill

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Matt McCormick
<matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> The ITKGroup_Remote would be nice to have.  Another idea is to use
> similar code in itk_common.cmake and after the initial configure, and
> submit with each module turned on.
>
> -----
>
> In terms of the modular dashboard, I agree that keeping an eye on the
> goals is a good idea.  Example goals:
>
>   1. People look at the dashboard.
>   2. People can quickly see if anything went wrong, what went wrong,
> and if they need to pay attention.
>
> In practice, I think the previous modular dashboard hurt more than
> helped with these goals.
>
> Part of the problem was that it took too many clicks and too many long
> CDash page loads to investigate the issues.
>
> The other problem was that the hierarchical view made it difficult to
> see what went wrong.  We have been working had to clean up the
> dashboard so there is not so much noise that it is difficult to see
> when any new problems occur.  It takes a very consistently clean
> dashboard for the hierarchical view to add value.
>
> The current page is getting somewhat long, but I personally don't have
> much difficulty scrolling through.  If it starts to get worse, which
> is a valid concern, I think something like javascript
> hiding/re-presentation of the data, which is done locally, would be a
> better solution than something that requires repeated CDash database
> lookups.
>
> My 2 cents,
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Xiaoxiao Liu <xiaoxiao.liu at kitware.com> wrote:
>> As a temporary solution, how about creating a CMake variable
>> "ITKGroup_Remote" to turn on
>> all remote modules for dashboard testing purpose?:
>>    http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/14201/  (a quick prototype just to
>> show the idea)
>>
>> If you turn ITK_BUILD_DEFAULT_MODULES OFF and turn this ITKGroup_Remote ON,
>> all
>> remote modules would be ON.
>>
>> This will make things easier to setup remote dashboards, with all the remote
>> module tests
>> included in a single dashboard (along with all the depending modules'
>> tests).
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Julien Jomier <julien.jomier at kitware.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bill, Brad,
>>>
>>> I'm also happy to "tune" CDash if necessary.
>>>
>>> Julien
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29/01/2014 17:29, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One alternative is to submit to a different (non-modular) dashboard.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I agree we need something better. I also believe it is not the modular
>>>>> dashboard.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we should establish requirements and see how best to meet them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
>>>>> <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I add 3 machines to loop through the additional modules, do you
>>>>>> think it would get too cluttered and un-organized to find the modules with
>>>>>> problems or the modules you are interested in? How do you find the Slicer
>>>>>> dashboard for it's modules/extensions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brad
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I prefer keeping the remote module where they are.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
>>>>>>> <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As a side note, we gonna also look at the modular dashboard for
>>>>>>>> Slicer
>>>>>>>> extension. I think it makes complete sense from an extension or ITK
>>>>>>>> module
>>>>>>>> developer perspective.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please, keep us posted of your findings..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
>>>>>>>> <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Bill,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> That is what I recall from it too. But I was looking at it from an
>>>>>>>>> ITK
>>>>>>>>> developers perspective. I wanted to get the whole ITK view the way I
>>>>>>>>> was use
>>>>>>>>> to from the normal dashboard. I am not suggesting replacing the
>>>>>>>>> current
>>>>>>>>> view, well just the moving the "Expected Nightly Remote Modules"
>>>>>>>>> there as I
>>>>>>>>> think the current layout won't scale.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As a modular developer the modular dashboard might be the right
>>>>>>>>> view. I
>>>>>>>>> would get a line for my module and I may be able to drill down for
>>>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>>>> module. I don't see a live version of it anymore to check though.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I was just thinking that they might compliment each other for these
>>>>>>>>> two
>>>>>>>>> cases.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Brad
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Jan 29, 2014, at 8:44 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I do not recommend the modular dashboard. It has severe navigation
>>>>>>>>>> issues.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
>>>>>>>>>> <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm lazy and want to reduce the maintenance burden on creating a
>>>>>>>>>>> nightly build to test the remote modules.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> It looks like the script running on "dash5.kitware" is nicely
>>>>>>>>>>> grinding
>>>>>>>>>>> through some remote modules ( and potentially other off by default
>>>>>>>>>>> modules
>>>>>>>>>>> like DCMTK, MINC). I was about to suggest this be some how added
>>>>>>>>>>> into the
>>>>>>>>>>> "dashboard" branch, but now I am seeing the
>>>>>>>>>>> itkmodular_common.cmake script
>>>>>>>>>>> there, which really has a lot of the functionality need such as
>>>>>>>>>>> some support
>>>>>>>>>>> for valgrind and coverage.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Does it make since to bring back the modular dashboard for these
>>>>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>>>> modules?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I really just want to be able to specify a list for modules to be
>>>>>>>>>>> modularly tested on a a couple builds and try to re-use a script
>>>>>>>>>>> to do this.
>>>>>>>>>>> I am trying to figure out what's the easiest way to do this for
>>>>>>>>>>> the long
>>>>>>>>>>> run.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>> Brad
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