ReFrame 2.7

ReFrame 2.7 Release Notes

API Changes

• New composable and flexible syntax for sanity and performance checking
• Old syntax of RegressionTest.sanity_patterns and RegressionTest.perf_patterns is deprecated
• RegressionTest.strict_check attribute behavior changed

Framework

• New complete documentation with tutorial and reference guides
• New command-line option --strict
• New syntax in the configuration file
• New resourcesdir entry in the systems section of the configuration file
• Removed command-line option --relax-performance-check
• More robust unit tests of the asynchronous execution policy
• prefix_apps was removed from the settings.
• Standardised the behaviour of scoped dictionaries
• Code quality improvements
• Fixed misleading failure reports in asynchronous execution policy
• Fixed behaviour of the --nocolor option
• Fixed frontend crash during failure report when a test fails early in its setup phase
• Fixed crash when using execution modes