The STRATO tests base generates a namelist for each test case. These namelists can be re-used to test a specific configuration of SURFEX.
In the prospect of the new official version 8 of SURFEX, concerning the base of automatic tests, we propose the following organisation to help with the use of the base of tests: before the building of the new version, each developer, if he wishes it, can merge his branch with trunk_for_test and (...)
The base relies on a sort of "over-namelist" containing about all the possible switches and options for SURFEX. This namelist is called OPTIONS.nam_000.
The procedure is divided into two parts: shell scripts are successively called to run SURFEX with different options. They define all test (...)
The purpose of the base is to compare two versions of the code for various configurations and options, in order to detect, for example, developments that can have an unexpected impact in other parts of the code. In general, the base aims at: precisely evaluating the differences introduced by a (...)
The base of automatic tests was designed to run with version 7_3 of SURFEX, last trunk (revision 1443 today). During the development of the base, numerous bugs were found inside trunk and some modifications of the code were needed to be able to run certain test cases.
So much adaptations were (...)
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