'Parent' benchmark

[Yaniv Kaul]

Can someone explain to me how should I use the 'parent' benchmark field?

We have an issue where a single benchmark provides multiple results (for example, bandwidth, cpu usage of module A during the test, cpu usage of module B during the test). For that reason, we use each as a different benchmark:

test-X-bandwidth (units: Mbps), test-X-CPU-moduleA (units: percentage), test-X-CPU-moduleB (units: percentage).

I've tried to group the two 'CPU' related benchmarks under the bandwidth one - but did not see anything coming out from this.

Is this the right way to go?

Thanks in advance,

Y.

[Miquel Torres]

Hi Yahniv,

currently the parent field is not really being used in the UI. It
allows to already structure your data in that way:
Benchmark X (parent)
bandwidth
moduleA
moduleB

but the UI will currently display that as 4 different benches and graphs.

Do you have an idea how you would like to represent a hierarchy in the
user interface?
We could that as a basis (documenting it in an issue) for an
implementation going forward

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[Yaniv Kaul]

The below sounds good to me. 

Ideally, I would like to break tests into many 'parents' ('multiple inheritance' ?). In my case, I'd like to see bandwidth across multiple tests, or multiple tests across a single module, etc. Some can be achieved today using the comparison page.

Note that in many cases, the 'parent' is not a real benchmark - I just wanted to use it as a place-holder. 

Thanks,

Y.

[Miquel Torres]

Thanks for the insights.
I created a new issue @ https://github.com/tobami/codespeed/issues/143