[vtk-developers] Better organization of tests

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hi All,

In anticipation to Dart v2, I would like to functionally organize tests.
Dart v2 has a feature of grouping tests together based on their name.
So, for example if the tests have common prefix, the user is able to
collapse the tests and see overview for the whole group. Here is example:

Let say there are tests:

VTK.BlackBox.TestSetGet
VTK.BlackBox.PrintSelf.Common
VTK.BlackBox.PrintSelf.Hybrid
VTK.BlackBox.HeaderTesting.Common
VTK.BlackBox.HeaderTesting.Hybrid

Now the user can collapse all VTK tests, or all VTK.BlackBox tests, or
all VTK.BlackBox.PrintSelf tests, etc.
(Similar concept applies to ITK)

This makes more and more sense, since the number of tests in VTK is
reaching 1000 and in ITK is well over 1000.

The change to do this is actually pretty simple and would not break
anything. The only drawback is that the test overview page and the N/A
column will have large number of tests duplicated with a different name.

Any comments?

-- 
Andy Cedilnik
Kitware Inc.