On 14.12.2014 22:26, Robinson Tryon wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 3:37 PM, bfoman <bfo.bugm...@spamgourmet.com> wrote: >> Hi! >> From the rr 3.0 release notes - >> http://robert.ocallahan.org/2014/12/rr-30-released-with-x86-64-support.html: >> >>> [...] >>> - Many bug fixes to broaden the range of recordable applications. E.g. >>> LibreOffice and QEMU work now. >> >> I am unfortunately unable to test this tool ATM, so maybe anyone working on >> Linux will have any spare time? This could start interesting Linux QA+dev >> workflow (QA to record a bug session in rr, dev to fix it by replaying >> it)... > > 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 > final verification of the results, that could change a 5-15min repro > time to a 2-5min review/bug update, and we could accomplish a lot > more! > > I'll try to find time this week to take a peek at rr :-)
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. _______________________________________________ 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/
