[CMake] Combinatorial validation with cmake

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2013-11-04 10:59-0000 PULVERAIL, Sebastien wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have been using cmake for a while now, but just for compilation.. Now, I am trying to use ctest/cdash for doing my tools validation.
>
> I need to do a combinatorial validation running my tests multiple times and in a random order. So I found the "--schedule-option" to run tests in a random order.. But I don't know how to specify ctest to run a test multiple times.
>
> If it is not possible, is there someone which tool I can use?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
Hi Sébastien:

If what you want to do is run ctest (say) 1000 times,
then under bash on Linux or bash.exe on MSYS/Windows, the following
should work:

ncount=1000
for count in $(seq $ncount); do
   echo "executing ctest for count = $count out of $ncount"
   ctest
done

Alan
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