Fwd: Running tests faster..

[Myriam Schweingruber]

JFYI


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>
Date: Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:04 AM
Subject: Running tests faster..
To: kde-frameworks-devel at kde.org
Cc: kde-core-devel at kde.org, kde-buildsystem at kde.org


Hi,

just a quick hint, maybe you don't know this yet:

You can run tests using "make test".

This will run test by test after each other.

Internally this simply calls ctest.

If you call ctest manually, you can use extra command line options,
and, it supports -jN, as make does.

So, if you have 4 cores, run

ctest -j4

to have it execute 4 tests in parallel and save time this way.

Happy testing :-)

Alex


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