Re: [AMBER-Developers] Looking for another volunteer--make a "fast" test suite?

From: Hai Nguyen <nhai.qn.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:46:01 -0400

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:33 PM, David Cerutti <dscerutti.gmail.com> wrote:

> One other thing we might do is have each of us go into our respective
> projects and ensure that the tests are running as efficiently as possible.
> For example, rather than 50 steps of MD printing every ten iterations, can
> the same quality assurance be got in ten steps printing every two
> iterations? For sander/pmemd, startup time is still a significant
> overhead, but shave 40% off many of the test cases and that'll take the
> edge off the problem. (Another thing to mention is that if your test needs
> 50 steps to monitor numbers with four places after the decimal and ensure
> the code is not subtly corrupted, a more sensitive metric needs to be
> devised to get at lower significant figures.) I think that part of the
> problem here is like pollution: each test contributing an extra few seconds
> goes a long way to making the suite as a whole bloated.
>
>
I am also working on split the serial tests to run them in parallel.

Hai


> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Daniel Roe <daniel.r.roe.gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > My suggestion is to move from gitosis to a tool that implements a
> > > PR/CI-gating workflow like GitLab (which can be self-hosted). Disable
> > > pushing directly to master and make every change pass through a gated
> > pull
> > > request that enforces some level of quality before merging is
> permitted.
> >
> > Yes, let's do this! But only once we've come up with a far more
> > compact test suite per DAC's previous request. The full test suite can
> > still be run nightly.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------
> > Daniel R. Roe
> > Laboratory of Computational Biology
> > National Institutes of Health, NHLBI
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