On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <
[email protected]> wrote:

> did you read delta debugging from andreas Zeller?
>

No. Where ?

Laurent



>
> 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/
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