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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 14 November 2011 10:26, Marie E. Rognes <meg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 11:13 AM, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>
>> I frequently break the adaptivity unit test (my fault), but the tests
>> are not very useful in tracking down problems because they're really
>> regression tests rather than unit tests. Could they be broken up to
>> better test individual function calls?
>>
>
> If anyone sees a good way of doing that, yes, definitely! However, the error
> estimation features are fairly high-level by construction, so further
> (meaningful) simplifications are not entirely obvious.
>

The test don't have to meaningful - it would be helpful in the case of
a seg fault if we could narrow it down  to a particular function call.
It would be a help just to know which function calls are successful
and which fail.


> How about moving the adaptivity tests to the regression tests instead, so
> that the regression tests include the demos + an additional set of tests?
> Would that help?
>

I think that some low-level tests would be helpful.

Garth

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> Marie
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