Testing LFRic Core

Note

At the LFRic Apps vn2.0 release, the cylc7 LFRic Core suite was deprecated and the make test-suite functionality removed. Only the cylc8 suite is now maintained.

LFRic testing is launched with Cylc8 rose-stem commands (as in eg. LFRic Apps):

export CYLC_VERSION=8
rose stem --group=developer
cylc play <NAME-OF-SUITE>

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The minimum requirement for testing a branch that is to be sent for review is that the system level developer tests pass on all the applications. These are launched from make and utilise rose and cylc.

While developing your change, for expediency you may want to run the tests for only some applications. This can be done by changing the group you run, eg --group=simple_diffusion.

The command above will launch the developer suite. You can include slightly more testing if required by running --group=all instead (this includes the developer suite).

It is also possible to run on a single platform, eg. --group=ex1a. To select which meto EX machine is used, add -S USE_EX<AB/CD/Z>.

Tip

For more details on LFRic testing including details of unit tests please visit the LFRic testing trac wiki page.