[Insight-users] Cdash at Home Awesomeness

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

Every Insight Toolkit User should try CDash at Home.

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Testing_On_Demand/Tutorial

Yesterday I set up my home and work computers to run the CDash at Home
client. They were soon running tests of the code in the ITK review
system, Gerrit.

http://review.source.kitware.com/

I returned to working on a program that uses ITK and I noticed that with
some recent changes to ITK I was now able to isolate a bug to the Vector
Gradient Magnitude image filter. I wrote an e-mail to the ITK users list
where Brad, an ITK developer, was able to confirm the bug. I submitted a
bug report to Mantis the ITK bug tracker.

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/my_view_page.php

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* Here is the part with the CDash at Home awesomeness. *
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As Brad submitted changes to his Gerrit branch for _my_ bug, I was able
to watch builds run for those changes!

Some of those builds ran on _my_ computers!

I was able to watch the development process.

I was able to comment on the fix as it was happening!

If even a few ITK users set up CDash at Home clients it will be like a
continuous parallel heterogeneous git bisecting dashboard fest every day!


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