[Insight-users] How can I take part in quality control

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Zach,

You are right,
Python and Tcl are not being extensively tested,
and sure enough that is a factor that contributes
to the wrapping being unstable.

The solution is indeed quite simple. You can configure
tests in python in your local build, and even if they
are failing, post them to the Dashboard. The Experimental
section is the place to start.

If the tests show up failing on the Dashboard there
will be more positive presure for fixing them and
more information available for keeping track of the
potential sources of error.

The extensive testing is a self-regulating system,
what is not tested breaks easily and hardly gets
noticed. At this point and time, the Toolkit will
be as good as the users-community will demand from
it and as much as user's themselves will be willing
to participate in the maintenance process.

This is a completly transparent process. The code is
open, the Dashboard is open. Please feel free to
configure a couple of python test and post experimental
builds or nightly builds to the Dashboard. As we get
those fixed we can add your tests to the standard testing
suite and progressively increase the coverage for Python,
Tcl and Java.



Regards,



   Luis



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Zachary Pincus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One thing I've found is that the default test process (e.g. the one that 
> you can set up with cmake, and that can be configured to report to the 
> dashboards) does *not* test the python wrappers.
> 
> At least for me, the wrappers usually build fine and then fail at 
> runtime. Unfortunately, there are very few python wrapping tests 
> included with ITK, and none are part of the automated system. (This in 
> fact might be part of the reason why the wrappers are so often broken?)
> 
> I would volunteer to work on some such tests that could be added to the 
> build process, but unfortunately given that python wrapping is broken 
> for me, I can't really do much development on tests for them (no 
> positive control!)
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?
> 
> Zach Pincus
> 
> Department of Biochemistry and Program in Biomedical Informatics
> Stanford University School of Medicine
> 
> On Feb 25, 2004, at 3:35 AM, Carlos Phillips wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I have been trying to use ITK on my dual G5. The problem is that I 
>> need python wrapper support and dynamic library support or python 
>> wrapper support are often broken. I would like to volunteer my 
>> computer for quality control of builds including python wrappers. 
>> Would this be useful? If so, how should I proceed?
>>
>> Carlos
>>
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