[vtk-developers] VTK Modular: Coverage and Valgrind process breakdown

[Bill Lorensen]

Dave,

I'm sorry. I did not mean the links were generally useless. I meant
that don't address my concerns about the process breakdown.

Bill

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> I disagree. It gives you a list of coverage (or valgrind) errors in a
> list that you can scan to evaluate what's happening over time. Could
> be useful to somebody who wants to see what day something changed
> drastically.
>
> I agree that coverage and valgrind results are important.
>
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dave,
>>
>> Those links are pretty much useless. I'm looking forward to the links
>> we see on the daily dashboards.
>>
>> I understand that nothing is free, but, coverage and valgrind are an
>> important part of our process.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:28 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry... those links were both the same. Here is the list of coverage
>>> dashboards:
>>>
>>>  http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=VTK&filtercount=2&showfilters=1&filtercombine=and&field1=hascoverage/bool&compare1=1&value1=&field2=buildstarttime/date&compare2=84&value2=now
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:17 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> The AIX machine is not the coverage dashboard. It used to be
>>>> londinium. Unfortunately, there's a not-yet-fixed issue with gcov from
>>>> gcc 4.7 not working well with ctest. We have to get the fix into ctest
>>>> first to run it on a machine with gcc 4.7 -- if somebody else could
>>>> volunteer a machine using an earlier gcc to report VTK coverage, that
>>>> would be a good thing.
>>>>
>>>> Here's a filtered view of coverage dashboards:
>>>>
>>>> http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=VTK&filtercount=2&showfilters=1&filtercombine=and&field1=hasdynamicanalysis/bool&compare1=1&value1=&field2=buildstarttime/date&compare2=84&value2=now
>>>>
>>>> And of dynamic analysis dashboards:
>>>>
>>>> http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=VTK&filtercount=2&showfilters=1&filtercombine=and&field1=hasdynamicanalysis/bool&compare1=1&value1=&field2=buildstarttime/date&compare2=84&value2=now
>>>>
>>>> You can scroll through those to see what changed from day to day,
>>>> going as far back as we have CDash data.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HTH,
>>>> David C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that VTK modular is settling in, two important software process
>>>>> components need attention.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Coverage:
>>>>> p90n03.pbm.ihost.com - AIX00F614-xlC is the machine that produces
>>>>> coverage. It has not been building for 22 days.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Valgrind has over 12000 defects. Prior to modularization it had 0 defects.
>>>>> http://open.cdash.org/viewDynamicAnalysis.php?buildid=2238424
>>>>> Seems that many of the defects are python related and need some
>>>>> valgrind suppressions. Once that is done, we can fix the real defects.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm willing to help improve coverage and real valgrind defects, but
>>>>> dashboard maintainers need to address the compilation failures and
>>>>> valgrdin suppressions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
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