:orphan: Testing the installation ======================== It is very important that you verify that your DIRAC installation correctly reproduces the reference test set before running any production calculations. But also with all tests passing you are strongly advised to always carefully verify your results since we cannot guarantee a complete test coverage of all possible keyword combinations. The test set driver is CTest which can be invoked with "make test" after building the code. Environment variables for testing --------------------------------- Before testing with "make test" you should export the following environment variables:: $ export DIRAC_TMPDIR=/scratch # scratch space (adapt the path of course) $ export DIRAC_MPI_COMMAND="mpirun -np 8" # only relevant if you compile with MPI Note that if you set the DIRAC_MPI_COMMAND the pam script will assume you that this is a parallel calculation. Before you test an MPI build, you have to set DIRAC_MPI_COMMAND otherwise the tests will be executed without MPI environment and many of the tests will fail. Running the test set -------------------- You can run the whole test set either using:: $ make test or directly through CTest:: $ ctest Both are equivalent ("make test" runs CTest) but running CTest directly makes it easier to run sequential tests on several cores:: $ ctest -j4 # only for sequential tests You can select the subset of tests by matching test names to a regular expression:: $ ctest -R dft or matching a label:: $ ctest -L short To print all labels:: $ ctest --print-labels How to get information about failing tests ------------------------------------------ We do our best to make sure that the release tarball is well tested on our machines. However, it is impossible for us to make sure that all functionalities and tests will work on all systems and all compiler versions. Therefore, some tests may fail and this is how it can look:: Total Test time (real) = 258.17 sec The following tests FAILED: 34 - dft_response (Failed) 73 - xyz_input (Failed) 75 - dft_ac (Failed) Errors while running CTest The first place to look for the reasons is build/Testing/Temporary:: $ ls -l Testing/Temporary/ total 108 -rw-rw-r-- 1 bast bast 2247 Dec 11 10:19 CTestCostData.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 bast bast 94798 Dec 11 10:19 LastTest.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 bast bast 39 Dec 11 10:19 LastTestsFailed.log LastTest.log contains a log of all tests that were run. Search for the test name or "failed". If tests do not produce any output, then this is the place to look for reasons (environment variables, problems with pam). In addition, for each test (whether passed or failed), a directory is created under build/test. So in this case you can go into build/test/dft_response to figure out what went wrong. The interesting files are the output files:: -rw-rw-r-- 1 bast bast 89538 Dec 11 10:17 lda_hf.out -rw-rw-r-- 1 bast bast 1570 Dec 11 10:17 lda_hf.out.diff -rw-rw-r-- 1 bast bast 841 Dec 11 10:17 lda_hf.out.reference -rw-rw-r-- 1 bast bast 841 Dec 11 10:17 lda_hf.out.result The ``*.out`` file is the output file of the test. The ``*.result`` file contains numbers extracted by the test script. The ``*.reference`` file contains numbers extracted from the reference file. The ``*.diff`` file is empty for a test where result and reference match. If they do not match, the ``*.diff`` file will list the lines of output where the results differ.