McXtrace - An X-ray ray-trace simulation package

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mctest family

Installation testing / benchmarking tools, under tools/Python/mctest.

mctest / mxtest

Runs every %Example test embedded in the instrument library, compiling, displaying (single-particle), and running each one, then compares the result against the target value recorded in the instrument header.

Option	Description
--ncount N, -n N	ncount sent to mcrun (default: 1e6)
--seed S, -s S	seed sent to mcrun (default: 1000; 0/NULL randomises)
--mpi N	MPI node count sent to mcrun
--openacc	pass --openacc to mcrun
--nexus	compile/run with NeXus output format everywhere
--lint	just run the C-linter (no simulation run)
--config CONFIG	test only this specific config — label name or absolute path
--instr PATTERN	test only instruments matching this regex (comma-separated for multiple)
--comp COMP	test only instruments that use component COMP
--mccoderoot DIR	root search folder for McCode installations
--testdir DIR	write test results directly into DIR (default: cwd)
--local DIR	pick up instruments to test from DIR instead of the McCode installation
--limit N	test only the first N instruments per version
--skipnontest	skip compiling instruments that have no %Example test
--suffix SUFFIX	append SUFFIX to the test directory name
--uid ID	unique identifier for the suffix (default: timestamp)
--compilemax S	max seconds allowed per compilation (default: 600; x100 with --lint)
--runmax S	max seconds allowed per test run (default: 3600)
--displaymax S	max seconds allowed per test display run (default: 60)
--permissive	exit 0 even if some tests fail
--strict	Let instruments without %%Example line(s) instantly fail.
--verbose	print a test/no-test status header before each test

mcviewtest / mxviewtest

Builds a single browsable HTML comparison report from one or more mctest result sets (as written by mctest --testdir), diffing/co-plotting each row against a chosen reference column via mcplotdiff-html/mccoplot-html.

Option	Description
testdir	(optional) root folder containing mctest result subfolders (default: cwd)
--reflabel LABEL	reference column/label to compare against (default: oldest subfolder in cwd)
--testroot DIR	test-root folder for interactive result management/cleanup
--verbose	output excessive debug information
--nobrowse	do not open a browser on completion
--nodiff	do not generate diff/co-plot comparison cells
--diff-errors-only	only diff rows that show a discrepancy (default: diff every valid row)
--diffmax S	max seconds per diff/co-plot comparison (default: 300)
--diffworkers N	number of comparisons to run in parallel (default: number of CPUs)

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