ReFrame Tutorials

• Tutorial 1: Getting Started with ReFrame
  • Getting Ready
  • The “Hello, World!” test
  • More of “Hello, World!”
  • A Multithreaded “Hello, World!”
    • More advanced sanity checking
  • Writing A Performance Test
    • Setting explicitly the test’s performance variables
    • Adding reference values
    • Examining the performance logs
  • Porting The Tests to an HPC cluster
    • Adapting the configuration
    • Running the tests
    • Adapting a test to new systems and programming environments
• Tutorial 2: Customizing Further a Regression Test
  • Parameterizing a Regression Test
  • More On Building Tests
    • Retrieving the source code from a Git repository
    • Adding a configuration step before compiling the code
  • Writing a Run-Only Regression Test
  • Writing a Compile-Only Regression Test
  • Grouping parameter packs
  • Applying a Sanity Function Iteratively
  • Customizing the Test Job Script
    • Adding job scheduler options per test
    • Modifying the parallel launcher command
    • Replacing the parallel launcher
    • Adding more parallel launch commands
  • Flexible Regression Tests
  • Testing containerized applications
  • Writing reusable tests
• Tutorial 3: Using Dependencies in ReFrame Tests
  • Listing Dependencies
  • Depending on Parameterized Tests
• Tutorial 4: Using Test Fixtures
• Tutorial 5: Using Build Automation Tools As a Build System
  • Using EasyBuild to Build the Test Code
    • Packaging the installation
  • Using Spack to Build the Test Code
• Tutorial 6: Tips and Tricks
  • Debugging
    • Debugging deferred expressions
    • Debugging sanity and performance patterns
    • Debugging test loading
  • Execution modes
  • Manipulating ReFrame’s environment
  • Environment Modules Mappings
  • Retrying and Rerunning Tests
  • Integrating into a CI pipeline

Online Tutorials

• Tutorial at 6th EasyBuild User Meeting 2021 [YouTube]