Tips

We collect general tips and tricks for t8code developers.

Try setting the T8CODE_TEST_LEVEL to a higher number (for example, 2) to make the test suite faster.

Compiling and running individual tests

When writing a new test, you do not have to run make test every time to compile your single test. make test will compile and run all tests which is rather time consuming.

Instead you can compile and run your tests individually:

make test/path/to/test
./test/path/to/test

Attention: Individual tests using testfiles from the test/testfiles folder must be run from the build/test/ folder. This ensures that the paths specified are valid.

Deactivating sc and p4est tests

If you are developing and running make test often, waiting for sc and p4est tests to compile and run can be tedious. Especially since you do not change anything in sc and p4est and hence know that the test cases will pass. Set the T8CODE_BUILD_TPL_TESTS option to OFF to disable third party library tests.