Re: [Plplot-devel] Wishlist: a verbose testing option

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2008-08-11 19:59-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2008-08-11 14:43-0600 Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>> Wishlist: a verbose testing option that
>> would output the actual command executed for each test.

I have implemented a proof of concept of this idea (revision 8636) for our C
examples.  Please try it out and let me know what you think.

Andrew, as a major user of the ctest command, I especially ask you to have a
look at how I did this (since I am no scripting expert) and the results for
ctest --verbose.  Please feel free to change any part of my implementation.
If you like what you now see for the C examples (and nobody else objects to
how much output there is now with the ctest --verbose command), I will
propagate the idea to the rest of the test_*.sh.in scripts except for the
octave one.

For test_octave.sh.in I will rely on you for that needed propagation since
octave expertise is required to read in the verbose_test environment
variable into octave and echo the commands to generate the various "p" and
"x" octave examples.

Alternatively, it might be a good idea to reduce test_octave.sh.in as much
as possible to the form of the other test scripts so, e.g., the looping
through the various examples is done in the shell rather than in octave.
Obviously, there will be a bit more latency with that approach, but
hopefully it would not be noticeable, and I think it would be valuable to
remove some of the mystery from test_octave.sh.in by doing as much as
possible in the shell.  Note, I committed the original version of
test_octave.sh, but that was under heavy instruction from our octave expert
at that time, Jaoa Cardoso, and I will be the first to admit I had no clue
what I was doing. :-) So I think a complete rewrite of test_octave.sh.in by
our current octave expert (you) would be a good idea.

Alan
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