CDash Beta Released

Kitware is happy to announce the release of CDash Beta, a new tool in our Quality Software Process chain. CDash is a follow up effort to Dart1 and Dart2. It uses many of the concepts that have been developed over the past decade for testing Dashboards. For a full history see http://cdash.org/about.html.

CDash is implemented as a web application using standard web tools like php and MySQL.

CDash Features

• Client/Server model for testing and reporting
• Separation of data from presentation using XML and XSLT
• Interactive dashboards with content updated in real-time
• Summarization of build logs to highlight any errors and warnings
• Comparison of testing results across configurations
• Multiple sites can contribute testing results
• Empowers developers to test software in an extreme programming environment
• Email notifications can be sent to developers when errors occur
• Compatible with existing versions of CMake 2.4 and greater
• Easy conversion from Dart1 dashboards
• Formatted for the iPhone (demo)
• Graphing of test times and failures over time for individual tests

 System requirements

• MySQL database (5.x and higher)
• PHP (5.0 recommended)
• XSL module for PHP
• cURL module for PHP (for site statistics)
• GD module for PHP (for regression tests)

Kitware is now using CDash to test our major open-source projects. Those dashboards can be found here: http://public.kitware.com/CDash. CDash is being released under the BSD license. Kitware offers courses and hosting options for CDash and the Kitware Quality Software Process. For more information about CDash see www.cdash.org.