CTest

CTest is a testing frontend and CDash dashboard client for CMake. CTest is used in multiple ways:

• ctest --test-dir <build_dir> to run tests defined in CMakeLists.txt using add_test
• CDash client
• CTest script runner (including as CDash client) via ctest -S myscript.cmake

2025

• 2025-01-27 – Intel oneAPI LLVM sanitizers

2024

• 2024-12-16 – CTest stdin pipe
• 2024-04-29 – CTest TEST_LAUNCHER target property
• 2024-04-28 – Detect CI via environment variable
• 2024-03-21 – CTest parallel run by default
• 2024-02-19 – CMake TARGET_RUNTIME_DLL_DIRS for CTest
• 2024-01-29 – CTest combines stdout and stderr

2023

• 2023-11-01 – CTest WILL_FAIL segfault SIGABRT catch
• 2023-03-05 – CMake matlab_add_mex() with CTest
• 2023-03-03 – Use CMake file-api from Python
• 2023-03-02 – CTest resume testing

2022

• 2022-10-13 – Cron log file
• 2022-10-12 – conda run non-interactive environment
• 2022-10-02 – CTest set environment variable
• 2022-07-15 – CTest CDash run only once
• 2022-05-01 – CMake CTest single command build and test
• 2022-04-28 – CMake, Python and Pytest
• 2022-04-24 – ctest_empty_binary_directory usage
• 2022-04-11 – CTest update command

2021

• 2021-06-10 – Diagnose CTest failures from logs
• 2021-05-31 – CMake CTest subset test label
• 2021-03-29 – List all CMake tests with CTest