On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 15:10 -0700, bfoman wrote: > Hi! > Today I stumbled upon rr - lightweight recording & deterministic debugging > tool. > More infos at http://rr-project.org, source https://github.com/mozilla/rr. > This potentially could be great tool for developers to debug. Just imagine > that .rr file is attached to bug report and dev simply downloads it and > replays the crash in his environment. > Any volunteer using Linux to have time to check if that tool works with > LibreOffice? > Best regards.
This sounds really interesting, but I was not able to install the package. I forget where I got to before giving up. Beside the uses that others foresee, I had dreams of another use: (*) The overhead during data collection is said to be 15 to 20%. Thus I could afford to use it all the time. (*) I would then have a record of what I did in the all-too-common case where LibreOffice crashes while I am futzing around *after* giving up the attempt to recreate a reported bug; of course I have stopped making careful notes of what I was doing. (*) Maybe(!) I could learn to read the recorded data and extract user inputs. (*) And then, of course, there is the exercise of cutting out parts of the user actions until we have more-or-less minimal crasher. On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 12:26 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > On 14.12.2014 22:26, Robinson Tryon wrote: > > Auto-replay of bug repro steps sounds pretty awesome for various > > reasons, especially for drudge work such as re-testing MAB's and > > moving them from, say, 4.2 -> 4.3. Even if we have a real person do > > well that's not what rr does. rr records a single execution and can > replay it, which is useful to track down bugs that are very hard to > reproduce - but the replay only works with identical program binaries. I suspect that a lot of things must be the same. Like, for example, the full names of files being opened or saved, configuration options, and what-not. So, transferring a test to another system might be quite a lot of work. It might be easier to figure out how give a developer access to my machine. All the best, Terry. _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/