CMake and xml output

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Sunday 01 May 2011 19.07.11 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Saturday 30 April 2011, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 April 2011 18.20.07 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Saturday 30 April 2011, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm experimenting with setting up a continious integration
> > > > server for
> > > > kdepim*. Everything seems to work ok except for collecting the
> > > > results from CTest. If I understand the documentation correct
> > > > CTest should produce a collection of .xml files as result but
> > > > all I see is three plain text files. Does anyone here know why
> > > > and hopefully how I can change this?
> > > 
> > > great that you want to set this up.
> > > What do you want to do with the xml result files from ctest ?
> > > If you simply use cdash, and there are already projects for kdepim
> > > set up on my.cdash.org, everything should just work.
> > > 
> > > Are you trying to do something different ?
> > > 
> > > If so, why ?
> > 
> > I'm trying to set up the whole push->build->test chain and if I
> > understood CDash correctly that is just for showing results. Which
> > would mean I would have to implement the rest of the chain my self.

Seems I was missinformed/missunderstod :)

> IMO ctest+cdash can do at least 90% of what we need.
> The missing things should be added there instead of implementing an own
> independent solution from scratch.
> 
> The typical setup with ctest+cdash is that you set up a cronjob, which
> starts a continuous build at some time of the day, this cont. build job
> then runs for basically the whole day and checks every few minutes whether
> there were updates.
> If there were updates, it updates, builds, tests and submits the build and
> test results to cdash.

Are there any examples of what this cronjob run for command?

> What more do we need in your opinion ?
> 
> The missing 10% from my POV:
> -group result on cdash per submitting machine over multiple projects
> -fine grained notification emails on a subproject basis

Does it have IRC notification capabilities?

> > But I could get the xml
> > results from CTest I would get away with implementing the conversion
> > from
> > CTest xml to JUnit xml as that seems to be more or less the standard
> > (among the systems I've looked at).
> > 
> > Also I'm not sure if this is just a missunderstanding or configurable
> > but
> > CDash seems to group results on a per computer basis and not on a per
> > project basis.
> 
> No, it is per project. Where have you seen it per computer ?

In the project view.

> > I would also like to have the ability to show the results over time and
> 
> CDash can show you graphs for succeeding/failing tests over time.
> If we want more graphs, Julien (the main cdash developer, I've put him on
> CC) will be very happy about patches.

If I manage to implement something I'll be sure to submit them.

/Regards
Torgny