I've ordered "Why programs fail" by Andreas Zeller. It will be my summer holidays book ;)
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/dd/ > you can get some papers but also the slides that go with the book > Stef > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:36 PM, laurent laffont wrote: > >> >> 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/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Patrick Barroca _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
