[Dune-devel] Testing policy

Oliver Sander sander at igpm.rwth-aachen.de
Wed Jul 3 10:39:50 CEST 2013


Hi Christoph,
since I am responsible for the mcmg crash:  the problem is simply a lack of time.
Feel free to send a patch (you need to reintroduce YaspLeafGridView to fix the bug).
--
Oliver

Am 03.07.2013 07:12, schrieb Christoph GrĂ¼ninger:
> Hi Dune developers,
> I dislike the state of our tests, too many are known to fail. Maybe that's ok, depending on the purpose of our tests.
>
> I use the check and headercheck to be sure not breaking other people's code. If both run through, I am quite confident. It is also handy to let users with troubles run some tests to see whether their
> problem comes from Dune or from their code. And to check compiler compatibility, it's useful, too. Thus, I would prefer to have passing tests and failing cases commented out.
>
> I am under the impression that not everybody feels as I do. Some tests were added in a failing state and are still failing. To me it would be better to have Flysprays task instead.
>
> I don't want to blame anybody but discuss this issue and maybe comment failing test out afterwards.
>
> Some tests which should currently fail:
> dune-common: diagonal matrix
> dune-grid: alberta grid refine, mcmg mapper stuff
> dune-localfunctions: localfe for pyramids and Raviart-Thomas simplices
>
> Best,
> Christoph
>





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