[vtk-developers] cdash/gerrit emails about failing tests...

[David Cole]

On Jan 28, 2013, at 10:28 AM, "Sean McBride" <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When you submit something to gerrit it helpfully builds your patch on a few machines and emails you the build/test results.  Like this:
> 
> ---------
> Project: VTK
> Site: kamino.kitware
> Build Name: Mac-Unknown-64-gcc-4.2.1-T2011misc-clang-analyzer-fixes-1
> Build Time: 2013-01-28T10:01:44 EST
> Type: Gerrit
> Tests failing: 4
> 
> 
> *Tests failing*
> vtkRenderingOpenGLCxx-TestShadowMapPass (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=157951653&build=2789252)
> vtkRenderingCoreCxx-TestSplitViewportStereoHorizontal (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=175290383&build=2789252)
> vtkRenderingHybridOpenGLCxx-SurfaceLIC (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=175290384&build=2789252)
> vtkRenderingOpenGLCxx-TestOffAxisStereo (http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=175290421&build=2789252)
> ---------
> 
> But with VTK, there's pretty much no build machine that's green, and so the "*Tests failing*" section seems to be almost always a list of false positives (wrt to the patch at hand).
> 
> Could this email be enhanced to divide the "*Tests failing*" section into 'newly failing' vs 'still failing'?  That would be most helpful...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 sean at rogue-research.com
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Or...

We could write tests that pass.

Just sayin'