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

[Bill Lorensen]

I'm saying that the machine that reports coverage and the machine that
runs valgrind tests less than 1/2 the code.

I agree that there are so many failing tests that we have no idea
about the quality of vtk.

In the past, we bragged about our process. We cannot do that anymore.

Bill

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:51 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Coverage is down to 44%. This means we test less than 1/2 of vtk's code.
>> Why? Because over 900 tests are failing on the coverage machine:
>> http://open.cdash.org/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=2789553
>
> Your statement that we test less than 1/2 of the code is false.  There are
> some dashboard machines (e.g. hythloth) cover much more.  I know that
> I'm being picky with semantics here, but the truth is, we have so many
> failing tests that the dashboard isn't even able to produce accurate code
> quality metrics.
>
>  - David



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