Hi, I had an idea the other day: we should start writing AutoIt scripts that can simulate regular day-to-day usage of a common software. When developing FreeRDP, the workflow is very different from a regular user:
make changes, compile, connect, test, try again. The user simply does: connect, use The problem with this difference in usage between most developers and users is that it's hard to catch bugs that occur after a certain period of time. I rarely keep the same FreeRDP instance running because I am developing it much more than using it. I'd like to find a good way of testing FreeRDP over a long period of time with simulated usage. This way, it would be easier for developers to measure FreeRDP in more "regular usage" scenarios, and especially identify bugs which occur sporadically after hours of usage. If we could write a collection of AutoIt scripts, it would be easy to have test machines run FreeRDP for long periods of time just to see if problems eventually happen. If you are not familiar with AutoIt, it's a scripting language for Windows which automates all sorts of tasks - especially GUI tasks which are usually very hard to automate. For instance, a script could simulate a user typing in word for hours with it. That would be enough to push the glyph cache in conditions which are rarely seen when you frequently start new sessions instead of using the same one for hours. Would anybody like to help writing such scripts? It shouldn't be that hard, and it's definitely a fun task. What do you guys think? Best regards, - Marc-Andre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
