[vtk-developers] Failing Test: TestDescriptiveStatistics needs attention

[Dave Partyka]

Okay, I'll leave it for now and send him more rubber chickens ;-)

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Agree. And it is the holidays for some...
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:29 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > It might be better to just leave it failing, back out the change or fix
> it
> > yourself... Disabling a test is a bad idea because nobody has an impetus
> to
> > re-enable the test in the future.
> > We can wait for a fix. Or if "we" can't then "we" can fix it ourselves...
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Dave Partyka <dave.partyka at kitware.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Bill,
> >>
> >> I emailed Philippe the day this broke but have not heard back from him.
> I
> >> typically don't cc the vtk list when sending a rubber chicken to those
> who
> >> break the dashboard ;-). I suspect he is gone for the holidays so I will
> >> just disable this test for the time being.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bill Lorensen <
> bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Folks,
> >>>
> >>> The subject test is failing on many platforms:
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/testSummary.php?project=11&name=Infovis-TestDescriptiveStatistics&date=2009-12-28
> >>>
> >>> According to cdash, the test has been failing since Dec 22 when these
> >>> files were checked in:
> >>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewUpdate.php?buildid=499182
> >>>
> >>> This continuous build was the first to notice the problem:
> >>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=498908
> >>>
> >>> I ran the test in the debugger and here is the failing statement:
> >>> Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
> >>> 0x0095f351 in vtkDescriptiveStatistics::Test (this=0x8764fe8,
> >>>    inData=0x87642a0, inMetaDO=0x8766f40, outMetaDO=0x87672b0)
> >>>    at
> >>>
> /home/lorensen/Projects/VTKHead/Infovis/vtkDescriptiveStatistics.cxx:536
> >>> 536         double s = sqrt( n / ( m22 * m2 ) ) * m3;
> >>>
> >>> This is a result of
> >>> Warning: In
> >>> /projects/kmorel/dashboard/VTK/Infovis/vtkDescriptiveStatistics.cxx,
> >>> line 282
> >>> vtkDescriptiveStatistics (0x59a0c0): InData table does not have a
> >>> column Metric 3. Ignoring it.
> >>>
> >>> Warning: In
> >>>
> /projects/kmorel/dashboard/VTK/Infovis/vtkUnivariateStatisticsAlgorithm.cxx,
> >>> line 122
> >>> vtkDescriptiveStatistics (0x59a0c0): InData table does not have a
> >>> column Metric 3. Ignoring it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The test purposely adds a bogus column. This causes the zero divide.
> >>> Since VTK does not throw exceptions, the bad data needs to be handled
> >>> in an alternative way to avoid the 0 divide.
> >>>
> >>> It is easy to miss a defect like this because the vtk dashboard seems
> >>> to have many tests failing on a continuing basis.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
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