Currently the unit tests only use the assertTrue method of the unittest framework. This results in useless error messages à la False is not true in the case of a test failure. By using the provided assertion methods these messages can be improved substantially.
This came up because I compiled TRIQS with GCC 10 (in GitHub Actions) and ran the tests where the test py_tail_issues failed repeatedly.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/source/test/python/base/tail_issues.py", line 137, in test_delta_infty
self.assertLess(max_im, 1e-12)
AssertionError: 1.8302364448227348e-12 not less than 1e-12
To this end I propose increasing the test tolerance from 1e-12 to 2e-12.
Wentzell
commented
3 years ago
Currently the unit tests only use the
assertTruemethod of theunittestframework. This results in useless error messages à laFalse is not truein the case of a test failure. By using the provided assertion methods these messages can be improved substantially.This came up because I compiled TRIQS with GCC 10 (in GitHub Actions) and ran the tests where the test
py_tail_issuesfailed repeatedly.To this end I propose increasing the test tolerance from
1e-12to2e-12.