Simscope Release History — v430 — 439

1.439

1. `feature` Test List Search filtering by Job Metadata

You can now filter by job metadata from the Test List Search page.

2. `feature` Added heatmapsummary config option, to add summary rows in Heatmaps

If this is enabled in simscope.config:

[chart]
# Optional: add summary rows under heatmaps, to indicate the number of unique elements in each column
heatmapsummary = true

Simscope will display additional summary rows at the bottom of Pass Rate heatmap charts:

# 100%
# Unique Fail
# Unique

3. `feature` Filter regressions to show latest single completed regression

Regressions can now be filtered by Latest finish, which will filter to the most-recent single Regression that has completed.

In other words, this sets the filters Limit=1 and Live=false

1.438

1. `feature` Increase Job Category limit

Job categories can now be increased beyond 9, via the config option maxcategories.

Note: for simplicity, the number must be set to a multiple of 10 (although the actual count is one less).

For example, to increase job categories to 99, add this to your simscope.config file:

[sigs]
# Increase job categories to 1-99
maxcategories = 100

2. `feature` Sparkline chart option for homepage

For groups that prefer sparklines over heatmaps, the Simscope homepage and status pages can optionally be switched to show sparklines charts instead of heatmaps.

To switch, edit your simscope.config file and add:

[chart]
# Optional: switch the Simscope homepage/status page to use sparkline charts instead of heatmaps
statuslinechart = true

Here is an example homepage with sparklines enabled:

3. `feature` Added user filter for component status page

The component status page can now filter by regression Launch User.

1.437

1. `feature` Added dashboard auto-refresh

Dashboards can now be auto-refreshed on an hourly or daily basis, in the browser.

2. `feature` Charts: changed LIVE to FRESH

Changed chart text region to indicate data as FRESH (instead of LIVE).

This distinguishes from confusion with the LIVE term used with running regressions.

3. `bugfix` Improved shared pages

Various bug fixes when displaying Shared Simscope Pages.

1.436

1. `feature` Shared Page titles

Shared Simscope Pages can now optionally be saved with a custom title at the top.

For example, this shared page has a custom title Daily Regressions:

2. `feature` Embedded charts with custom title

When embedding charts, they can now have an optional chart title at the top.

3. `bugfix` Pie chart series clipping

Pie charts now have clipping enabled, so that series names will be fit properly into the window, rather than being rendered outside the visible window.

1.435

1. `feature` Rule Templates with Regex Branches

Rule Templates now can have a regular expression branch (e.g. dev|main), to support multiple branches with a single template.

When the template expands into a signature rule, it will be converted to a fixed branch (e.g. main).

2. `feature` Triage rates in Metric charts

Metric charts now support charting triage rates. Here is an example line chart:

3. `bugfix` Job Metadata with commas now supported

Custom Job Metadata now supports metadata values with comma (ie ,) characters embedded in them.

Note: this metadata feature requires the latest Tunnel release to work.

4. `bugfix` Disable skip signatures after enabling skip signatures

SIMSCOPE-64

In previous Simscope versions, if Skip signatures were enabled and then disabled, Simscope would get confused and incorrectly mark future Pass jobs as Skip jobs.

→ This bug is now fixed.

5. `feature` Raw job timestamp JSON display mode

When viewing job JSON files from the web interface, Simscope now shows full start/finish timestamps (with microseconds), to make debugging of aliased jobs easier.

Normally the timestamps get rounded to second-level precision.

1.434

1. `bugfix` Regression details bugfix

When filtering signatures within the Regression details page, with a category filter (ie lint, sim, etc) set, the job Totals line was incorrectly showing job totals across all categories.

2. `bugfix` Regression metadata chart grouped by Job Category

When charting regression metrics, if Group By is set to "Job Category", metric charts will render correctly now.

(Note this is an invalid selection, but the chart will still render)

3. `bugfix` URL encoding of +regressions

Fixed three URL encoding problems, if regressions contained + (plus) characters in the name.

4. `feature` Exclusive Signature search

When searching Signatures with Exclusive Signatures checked, Simscope will now show a filter indicator at the top of the page.

1.433

1. `feature` Regression time_limit_hours

SIMSCOPE-61

Added Regression JSON time_limit_hours field.

This is an optional floating point field, which is a per-regression wallclock time limit, in hours.

If set, this enables a custom time limit for individual regressions, where you either want a short or long time limit. If the time limit value is exceeded, Simscope will automatically mark the regression as complete.

For example, you can set time_limit_hours to:

0.5 – regression must complete in a half hour.
192 – regression must complete within 8 days.

If the time_limit_hours value is either zero, or not set, Simscope will use the default autotimeouthours instead.

2. `feature` Added fieldcolor configuration

Regression fields can now be colorized in the Regression Metadata Dashboard using the fieldcolor configuration.

For example, you can use this to make fields change color between green or red (good or bad values).

1.432

`bugfix` Allow + character in regression name

In previous versions, links to some regression results would not be encoded properly if the regression name contained a + character (e.g. myregr+1234).

This bug is now fixed.

1.431

1. `feature` Test List table default metadata columns

The Test List table now supports default metadata columns, if you add this to your simscope.config file:

[tests]
# Add the user column to Test List Search
testlistautometadata = "user"

# To add multiple columns, separate by a comma
# testlistautometadata = "user,cycles"

2. `feature` Added Column count row on Heatmap charts

Heatmap charts now render a # (Column Count), to indicate how many unique series matched in each column.

3. `feature` Standalone message bucketizer

Simscope can now be run standalone, to bucketize job messages from the command line.

This does not affect Simscope server performance, as the logic is run client side.

Example input with 3 job messages.

Notes:

The input format is a JSON string array. Simscope discards anything after the first line.
The first message has a <<keep> section.
The second message has an {{ignore}} section.
Third job is a pass (blank message).

[
    "UVM_ERROR 123 <<my_component>> top index fail",
    "[timestamp 400.2ns] world {{102}}\nsecond line",
    ""
]

To bucketize these on the command-line, run:

> bin/simscope bucketize messages.json > buckets.json

This example will produce buckets.json:

[
    "UVM_ERROR ... <<ignore>> top index fail",
    "timestamp ... world {{102}}",
    "Pass"
]

Simscope will now allows users to login with uppercase user ID's (Simscope will convert to lowercase automatically).

5. `feature` Added UNIQUE chart queries

Metric charts can now select UNIQUE group by, to COUNT() unique series hits.

6 `bugfix` simscope_client strip invalid trailing slash on host address

The Python simscope_client now will strip invalid trailing slashes on host address.

7. `bugfix` Workaround Python JIRA package older versions

The Python jira package now works with older versions, missing the my_permissions value.

Previously, if you ran Simscope JIRA scripts with older versions of the jira package, you would get an Exception thrown.

Now the code will detect old version, and skip this logic.

Note: this value is different than regression duration, which is unlimited.

2. `bugfix` Changed x-axis chart maximum length

The X axis labels (for model version, test group, etc) charts, has been reduced from 24 characters to 20 characters, to improve the chart rendering with long labels.

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