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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Execution replay for Qt/KDE applications
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2004-10-16 5:39:29
Message-ID: 200410160139.31296.ben () meyerhome ! net
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On Thursday 14 October 2004 3:40 am, Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
> On Thursday 14 October 2004 01:10, Oliver Oppitz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > 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?
>
> It would also be useful in developing tutorials for users. I.e. it would be
> possible to let the application show which steps to take to activate/use a
> certain feature.
>
> best,
> Jeroen

What about with dcop?

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/automation/

- -Benjamin Meyer

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