Randall Parker wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:44:57 -0700 esteemed chris hofmann did hold forth
> thusly:
>
>>problem is that we have no current method to gather this information.
>>talkback data is gathered for only those that opt in to the program;
>>but more importantly it gathers reports for only thoese that have crashed.
>>we never see reports from users that are crash free for a given period,
>>so talkback present a bit more negetive view of the number.
>>
>
> Is there any script that can be run to tell a browser to go thru a successive
> long series of web pages?
>
> I'm thinking that a bunch of people running a script that reports at the
> start to some central server and then that it has reached various points
> without crashing would be a way for a repeatable empirical approach to be
> applied to particular builds and to get a sense over time whether the builds
> are getting more or less stable.
>
>
>
Debug|chofmann's browser buster. It doesn't report directly but if
enough people run it with a talkback build it will help to solidify the
mean time between failure numbers. I've been running it regularly for
quite some time. Back in November of last year I was thrilled when I
hit 200 pages and now I'm bummed out if I don't make 1000 (on linux).
We're definitely getting better.
--Asa
