[vtk-developers] Request: turn off BTX/ETX in some dashboad builds

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:16 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The one dashboard test that is guaranteed to break is TestSetGet.
>> Some of the BTX'd methods are Get methods that segfault when they are
>> called, and if BTX is ignored, then TestSetGet will call them. These
>> methods will either have to be fixed or excluded from TestSetGet.
>>
>
> The main point of that test is to ensure that any Get method may be called
> directly after instantiating any VTK object. I would argue for fixing, not
> excluding. VTK should not crash if somebody "accidentally" calls a Get
> method before the object is ready for it. It should just return 0, or false,
> or uninitialized...
>
> It might be ok to add error or warning macro output, but crashing is not
> cool.
>
> So, here is my experimental dashboard. I can add this to my crontab until
it is more globally enabled. You can see three tests failing there.

http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=660272

Marcus
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