[Users] hdf5 output for testsuites

[Erik Schnetter]

This is a good idea. Either h5diff, or h5dump followed by diff should
do the trick.

Note that we build h5diff as part of the HDF5 thorn; it is available
e.g. as exe/sim/h5diff.

-erik

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Yosef Zlochower <yosef at astro.rit.edu> wrote:
> I was thinking about how to generate better testsuite for
> the CCE code, in particular, SphericalHarmonicDecomp thorn. The
> code generates an hdf5 file with coefficients for a
> Chebyshev/spherical harmonic expansions of the metric
> functions. Ideally, I would like to test that this hdf5
> has the correct data. I could have the thorn also produce
> ascii output, but it seems to be a stronger test to
> examine the hdf5 file itself. Would it be possible to
> do this as an extension to the testsuite mechanism?
>
> It seems like the h5diff (with the -d or -p option) program
> could be used for the comparison itself.
>
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