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

[Bill Lorensen]

David,

In years past, I gave many talks bragging about the high quality of
our toolkits. I would often give a live demo and point to the nightly
dashboard. We and others used software quality as a selling point of
our commitment to open source processes. I know for certain that we
won at least two large government grants because of our committment to
quality.

We also gave many GE internal talks, taunting our process and I
believe many GE businesses to improve their software processes.

I suspect that you, as our first outside developer, also promoted the
quality of VTK.

Bill

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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