[vtk-developers] Failing tests on dashlin1

Andrew Maclean andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
Thu Jun 5 23:35:22 EDT 2014


Thanks for the explanation. I have only ever seen it for three tests and I
did wonder about the junk on the images ... I thought it was a new style of
branding :-)

Regards
   Andrew


On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:27 PM, David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:

> Those tests are some of the few (I think there are 3 altogether, but there
> could be more) that use the front buffer when doing the image capture for
> comparison to the baseline. The vast majority of tests capture the back
> buffer.
>
> Tests that capture the front buffer are susceptible to accidentally
> capturing pixels from overlapping (and completely arbitrary, depending on
> what's on screen at the time) windows as part of the image capture... So
> you end up with test results that have junk in them like this:
>
> http://open.cdash.org/testDetails.php?test=259246517&build=3358643
>
> I know what it is, but I'm not sure what to do about it...
>
>
> HTH,
> David C.
>
>


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