Audience

Explain runtest in one sentence

Runtest will assist you in running an entire calculation/simulation, extracting portions for the simulation outputs, and comparing these portions with reference outputs and scream if the results have changed above a predefined numerical tolerance.

When should one use runtest?

• You compute numerical results.
• You want a library that understands that floating point precision is limited.
• You want to be able to update tests by updating reference outputs.
• You look for an end-to-end testing support.

When should one not use runtest?

• You look for a unit test library which tests single functions. Much better alternatives exist for this.