Non Regression Testing (NRT) aims to check if software modifications result
in undesired behaviour. Suppose the behaviour of the application previously
known, this kind of test makes it possible to identify an eventual regression,
a bug. Improving and tuning a parallel code can be a time-consuming and
difficult task, especially whenever people from different scientific fields
interact closely. The JOREK code aims at investing Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)
instabilities in a Tokamak plasma. This paper describes the NRT procedure that
has been tuned for this simulation code. Automation of the NRT is one keypoint
to keeping the code healthy in a source code repository.Comment: No. RR-8134 (2012
