Testing Overview

OVIS has many parts, virtually all in on-going development, that interact with each other and with a very diverse set of platforms (hardware and software environments) and a diverse set of customers/users. We need and use several methods of testing to support maintaining many kinds of software features.

The goal of this page is to be a jumping off point for cataloging the methods and the features as currently used or as needed for ovis products. It also captures some presentations about testing work prior to 2021, for historical perspective and an understanding of critical needs that drive test development.

Testing methods and infrastructure The OVIS project provides software intended to work in a variety of evolving High Performance Computing environments for which there is no single reference platform and for which no single institution owns an example of all the supported platforms. This leads to a diverse testing infrastructure, as cataloged in the link above.

Features tested or to be tested in the future The software, its construction, packaging, installation, configuration, and operation all have numerous features to be tested. Documenting and testing these evolving features and their many combinations is the topic of the link above.

Some bits of LDMS testing history: