CDash Undergoes Second Major Release

CDash aggregates, analyzes and displays the results of software testing processes submitted from clients around the world, conveying the state of a software system to continually improve its quality. This new release fixes more than 60 bugs and adds several new features, many of which are detailed in this article.

We could not have released a major version of CDash without improving the user interface. We strongly believe that a simple interface is essential for improving the efficiency of any web application. First, we have significantly reduced the size of the header and left more space for the actual content. We have also hidden columns by default, such as the timing report and sections of the dashboard that do not contain any builds. The goal is to provide developers with a quick and easy view of the current status of the dashboard. If issues are reported by the dashboard, users can switch to the “advanced view” and display more information...

We have also listened to feedback from the community and decided to implement an easier way to report timing. The build time is now displayed as the elapsed time and a mouse over tooltip shows the actual timing for configuration, compilation, and testing, expressed in a simple format...