CMake Cookbook

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In this recipe, we deployed to CDash directly from the test target. It is possible to use a dedicated CTest script instead, and we will demonstrate this approach later in this chapter, in the upcoming Recipes 3 and 4.

CDash allows you to monitor not only whether tests are passing or failing, but also the test timing. You can configure margins for test timing: if a test takes more time than allotted, it will be marked as failing. This is useful for benchmark tests, to automatically detect performance degradation in test timing when refactoring code.