[LLVMdev] Proposal for improving the llvm nightly tester

[Rajika Kumarasiri]

Hi Dale,

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple.com> wrote:

> My main complaints about the nightly tester are:
> Loading the web pages is waaay tooo sllooooow
>
One of  the complaints there was that the nightly tester is too slow. I am
looking forward to hear any idea from some one to improve that.


> The information provided is not terribly useful for tracking down bugs.
>  What bug fixers need is environment+command line options adequate to
> reproduce the
>
problem.  Access to the run logs would be a good start.
>
This information can be added to the email that get delivered to the
llvm-testresults. Thanks for the inputs!

-Rajika

>
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Rajika Kumarasiri wrote:
>
> hi all,
> After having some discussions in the IRC, I am trying here to come up with
> a proposal for GSoC 2008 for improving the llvm nightly tester[1].Following
> are the ideas and suggestions that came up in the discussion, if you have
> any comment  or any other suggestion please add them to the list. I have
> some doubts in some places.
>
> 1.  Improvements to the perl script which manage actual testing
> (./util/NewNightlyTest.pl)
>      (a).  compiling llvm-gcc
>      (b).  allowing someone to use an existing tree versus checking out a
> new one
>
> 2.  The improvements to the email that get sent to the llvm-testresults
>       (a). finding a point in time where some test failed
>       (b). comparing two different sets of test results that aren't just 2
> days apart
>   here if you have any suggestions which help someone analysis test
> results would be grateful.
>
> 3. Running llvm testsuite for all targets, target variants and operating
> systems(using an simulator for hardware which is not available) ex:gcc
> project's compile farm [2]
>
> 4. Running Fortran,  Ada, C/C++/ObjC tests as well with test results
> emailed to the llvm-testresults.
>
> Most of the server side and the database design has already done by
> "tonic"(IRC nickname at #llvm), so suggestions regarding others would be
> important, so that we have a fully featured nightly tester .And finally all
> the php scripts need to be updated according to the required new features.
> Thanks in advance. Please add your comments.!
> Regards,
> -Rajika
>
> [1] - http://llvm.org/nightlytest/
> [2] - http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm
>
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