[BIOSAL] Travis and failure

George K. Thiruvathukal gkt at cs.luc.edu
Thu Nov 13 16:04:01 CST 2014


Yes, it's very quick. I will try to work on it before the weekend.

Tomorrow I have to meet students to talk about their semester projects.
Then it should be smooth sailing (I hope).

George

George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
*Professor of Computer Science*, Loyola University Chicago
*Director*, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
*Guest Faculty*, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
Division
Editor in Chief, Computing in Science and Engineering
<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cise> (IEEE CS/AIP)
(w) gkt.tv (v) 773.829.4872


On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien <boisvert at anl.gov>
wrote:

> > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:55 PM
> > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
> > Cc: biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: Travis and failure
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> > Yes, now that I wrote my first Thorium program, I can help with this. I
> may have to work on this over the weekend, but I will keep you posted.
>
> I created an issue:
>
> https://github.com/GeneAssembly/biosal/issues/818
>
> This should be fairly easy to implement since all 3 scripts already have a
> variable containing the number of
> failures.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
> > Best,
> > George
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> >
> > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> >
> > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
> Division
> > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
> >
> > (w) gkt.tv (v)
> >  773.829.4872
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
> >
> > > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:37 PM
> > > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > Cc:
> > biosal at lists.cels.anl.gov
> > > Subject: Re: Travis and failure
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It looks like the run-unit-tests.sh script is actually detecting
> errors but not returning an exit code anywhere in the code.
> >
> > If you want to add the return codes:
> >
> > - unit-tests: you already found the script
> > - example-tests: tests/run-examples.sh
> > - application-tests: tests/run-application-tests.sh
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> > >
> > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > >
> > > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
> Division
> > > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
> > >
> > > (w)
> > gkt.tv (v)
> > >  773.829.4872
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:35 PM, George K. Thiruvathukal
> > > <gkt at cs.luc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > FYI, when Scala runs unit tests using "sbt test", it returns 1 if any
> test fails.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> > >
> > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > >
> > > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
> Division
> > > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
> > >
> > > (w)
> > gkt.tv (v)
> > >  773.829.4872
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:34 PM, George K. Thiruvathukal
> > > <gkt at cs.luc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Séb,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I believe the project you showed me is an example of a broken project,
> so that's why Travis is not detecting failure. When running unit tests,
> failure is supposed to result not only in *junit.xml but
> > >  also propagate an error code back to the shell, not just rely on the
> *junit.xml (or standard) output. The convention for this (I think you
> already know) is to return non-zero.
> > >
> > > Can you let me know what Thorium was intended to do when tests don't
> pass? I just did a test, and it seems like something might be broken. I
> modified one of the tests to fail (and it failed) but "make test" returns
> success to the OS:
> > >
> > >
> > > gkt at cs-nuc-wtc:~/Work/biosal$ make test
> > >
> > > UnitTestSuite        test_assembly_arc   PASSED:       5   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:       5
> > > UnitTestSuite     test_assembly_vertex   PASSED:      22   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:      22
> > > UnitTestSuite           test_dna_codec   PASSED:       6   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:       6
> > > UnitTestSuite            test_dna_kmer   PASSED:       6   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:       6
> > > UnitTestSuite        test_dna_sequence   PASSED:       3   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:       3
> > > UnitTestSuite  test_dynamic_hash_table   PASSED: 1020411   failed:
>    0   TOTAL: 1020411
> > > UnitTestSuite test_fast_queue_iterator   PASSED:     152   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:     152
> > > UnitTestSuite           test_fast_ring   PASSED:     892   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:     892
> > > UnitTestSuite    test_hash_table_group   PASSED:      43   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:      43
> > > UnitTestSuite          test_hash_table   PASSED:   37921   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:   37921
> > > UnitTestSuite          test_map_delete   PASSED:  400000   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:  400000
> > > UnitTestSuite                 test_map   PASSED: 2535104   failed:
>    0   TOTAL: 2535104
> > > UnitTestSuite         test_memory_pool   PASSED:   60013   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:   60013
> > > UnitTestSuite                test_node   PASSED:      14   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:      14
> > > UnitTestSuite              test_packer   PASSED:       1   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:       1
> > > UnitTestSuite               test_queue   PASSED:   33075   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:   33075
> > > UnitTestSuite      test_red_black_tree   PASSED:  900002   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:  900002
> > > Error File: tests/test_ring.c, Function: main, Line: 18
> > > UnitTestSuite                test_ring   PASSED:     256   FAILED:
>    1   TOTAL:     257
> > > UnitTestSuite          test_ring_queue   PASSED:   62139   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:   62139
> > > UnitTestSuite                 test_set   PASSED:  409052   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:  409052
> > > UnitTestSuite          test_statistics   PASSED:       1   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:       1
> > > UnitTestSuite              test_string   PASSED:       5   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:       5
> > > UnitTestSuite              test_vector   PASSED:  706709   failed:
>    0   TOTAL:  706709
> > > UnitTestSuite PASSED 6165832 / 6165833 FAILED 1 / 6165833
> > > see unit-tests.junit.xml
> > > gkt at cs-nuc-wtc:~/Work/biosal$ echo $?
> > > 0
> > >
> > >
> > > Travis is not parsing the junit output (at least not for C projects).
> I can obviously modify my script on Travis to ensure it does fail. But I
> think we *should* return non-zero when any test fails.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > George
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> > >
> > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > >
> > > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
> Division
> > > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
> > >
> > > (w)
> > gkt.tv (v)
> > >  773.829.4872
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:10 PM, George K. Thiruvathukal
> > > <gkt at cs.luc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for clarifying. I should have looked more closely at the
> project name. :-) Today has been busy since I arrived at the office.
> > >
> > >
> > > I need to read up more on Travis to understand its approach to tests
> in general. I will also ask my colleague, who uses it for more traditional
> xUnit testing projects, too.
> > >
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> > >
> > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > >
> > > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science
> Division
> > > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
> > >
> > > (w)
> > gkt.tv (v)
> > >  773.829.4872
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: George K. Thiruvathukal [gkt at cs.luc.edu]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2014 2:56 PM
> > > > To: Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > > Subject: Re: Travis and failure
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ​Hi there!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I think the problem is that the failure is not being reflected as a
> Unix error code (non-zero). Is it possible that your wrapper for the JUnit
> results is not returning a non-zero code when tests fail?
> > >
> > > The link I gave to you is for the project "Mean.js".
> > >
> > > Also, I can confirm to you that "make tests" always returns 0.
> > >
> > > The result is available in *junit.xml. Or you can simply grep for
> "FAILED" in stdout.
> > >
> > > No FAILED string means it worked.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > George​
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > George K. Thiruvathukal, PhD
> > > >
> > > > Professor of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago
> > > >
> > > > Director, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities
> > > > Guest Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer
> Science Division
> > > > Editor in Chief, Computing in
> > > >  Science and Engineering (IEEE CS/AIP)
> > > >
> > > > (w)
> > >
> > gkt.tv (v)
> > > >  773.829.4872
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Boisvert, Sebastien
> > > > <boisvert at anl.gov> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you look at the following build:
> > > >
> > >
> > https://travis-ci.org/meanjs/mean/jobs/40710659
> > > >
> > > > it is written "passed" in green.
> > > >
> > > > Yet, if you look closely, the log file says:
> > > >
> > > >  13 passing (3s)
> > > > 1 failing
> > > >
> > > > 1) Article Model Unit Tests: Method Save should be able to save
> without problems:
> > > > Error: timeout of 2000ms exceeded
> > > > at null.<anonymous>
> (/home/travis/build/meanjs/mean/node_modules/mocha/lib/runnable.js:158:19)
> > > > at Timer.listOnTimeout [as ontimeout] (timers.js:112:15)
> > > >
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> > > > I am not sure what is going on there.
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