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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Execution replay for Qt/KDE applications
From:       Shift <shift () free ! fr>
Date:       2004-10-13 23:20:21
Message-ID: 200410140120.31901.shift () free ! fr
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Le Thursday 14 October 2004 01:10, Oliver Oppitz a écrit :
> Hi all,

Hi,

> I am currently investigating the possibility to use execution replay for
> Qt based applications. The basic idea is to record all QEvents (key
> pressed, mouse events, redraw, ...) during the lifetime of an application
> (and all data read from files). By feeding these events/data back to the
> application in a second run, the application should behave identically.
>
> I believe the feature could be very useful for debugging sporadic errors.
> Even a non-technically adept users can mail the recorded traces to the
> developer who can then replay the events that lead to the problem. There
> is simply is no better bug description than having the application show
> itself what went wrong. A second use of execution replay could be
> regression testing.
>
> The implementation should be fairly easy, either using event filters or
> reimplementing QApplication.notify().
>
> - Has anyone done work along these lines so far?
> - Any opinions?
> - Do you think this would be useful?
>
> Bye, Oliver
>

See http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/kdexecutor/morekdexecutor.html

Good night,

Franck

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