Baseline images

ParaView has a large number of tests that involve executing some ParaView functionality and then checking that the resulting image in the RenderView is the same as some reference baseline image to within some tolerance. These baseline images are stored in this directory under Data/Baseline. In many cases, there is one baseline image per test. However, some tests generate more than one output image. Each output has a distinct baseline image against which it is compared.

Alternate baselines

Some tests produce slightly different results on different platforms. To accommodate these differences, ParaView's testing infrastructure supports alternate baseline images. Naming alternate baseline images follows a simple pattern involving adding an underscore followed by a sequentially increasing integer to the end of the test name. For instance, for a test named MyTest, the primary and alternate baselines could be:

Unfortunately, this naming scheme does not provide any information about which dashboard configuration requires the alternate baseline. This file is intended to serve as a map between alternate baseline name and the dashboard configuration that requires it. This information can be used to easily generate new alternate baselines with the appropriate number by mapping the dashboard configuration back to the alternate baseline number.

Note that one alternate baseline may be appropriate for more than one dashboard configuration. In such cases, only one dashboard configuration is listed as it should be sufficient to generate the alternate baseline for that one machine.

Alternate baseline to generating dashboard configuration map

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