did you read delta debugging from andreas Zeller? Stef
On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:11 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > Hi, > > From a discussion I had with Kent Beck about Continuous Testing / Autotest > (see http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/2010/07/live-testing-with-autotest.html > ), I would like to add a kind of Time Machine for Smalltalk code in Autotest. > > When a test fails, what I really want to know is why. Sometimes a test fails > and I don't know why. So I have to go through a debugging session which > distracts me from what I've been coding. > > So an idea is to diff backtrace before and after the test fails: > - revert to last green > - replay the test and save the trace > - forward to current test and run (test fails) > - compare execution paths in order to see the consequence of last change > > How would you do this ? Where should I look for materials which can help me > coding this ? > > Cheers, > > Laurent Laffont > > http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/ > http://magaloma.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
