Scripts and tools for the validation of the Patatrack developments

The validate script is used to

• create working areas for a reference release (e.g. CMSSW_10_1_0), and a development release or branch (e.g. CMSSW_10_1_X_Patatrack);
• if one ore more PRs are specified, create a working area based on the development release, merge them and build;
• run various cmsDriver.py workflows on existing RelVals;
• profile the "step3" with nvprof, including the NVProfilerService
• upload the resulting DQM plots to the development GUI;
• upload the results of makeTrackValidationPlots.py, the nvprof profiles, and the log files to a web area on EOS;
• produce a markdown report with the relevant links.

Note: this script relies on visDQMUpload and visDQMUtils.py being available in the same directory. If they are missing they are automatically downloaded from https://github.com/rovere/dqmgui/ .

For more information on Patatrack, see https://patatrack.web.cern.ch/patatrack/ .
For more insormation on CMSSW, see https://cms-sw.github.io/ .