M.C.Collett@lut.ac.uk (M C Collett) (04/10/91)
I am looking for some software to monitor and playback X11 sessions for a 9000/350. I have looked at Xtrap, but that is implemented as a server/library extension. I don't have the source for either of the X server that I have on the system, the standard HP 7.0 server and the Release 4 server that I ftp'ed from hpvaaz. Therefore I can not use Xtrap. A colleague has a paper written by some folks from HP who had used something called XTM. The paper says this is public domain, but does not say where it can be obtained. Can anyone help? Mike Collett
andreas@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Jim Andreas) (04/18/91)
Here is a note on how to fetch the ClientExerciser from the MIT export machine. The "Client Exerciser" (also known as xtm in HP) is available as part of the T7 X Test Consortium test suite. The test suite is available on "export.lcs.mit.edu" as described below. It used to be on "expo" at MIT; however the MIT folks have moved all of the expo stuff to "export". I have excerpted the relevant files you need to ftp and listed them below. The T7 test suite has been split into .5 Megabyte chunks. You need to ftp all of them and then cat them together, then uncompress the result. You can then use tar to unpack the archive. The "Client Exerciser" requires that your X server support the "Input Synthesis Extension". All HP servers support the extension. I think the Tektronix sample server does also. We (us HP Corvallis X folk) have hacked xtm internally to fix bugs and design deficiencies, and have also added some helpful synchronization features. But we haven't figured out how to { sell, give away, support } the new version yet. You can ask, but no promises :-( ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Andreas | andreas@cv.hp.com | INTERNET Hewlett-Packard Company | {backbone}!hplabs!hp-pcd!andreas | UUCP 1000 N.E. Circle | (USA) (503) 750-2860 | VOICE Corvallis, OR 97330 | (USA) (503) 750-3788 | FAX ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied without warranty of any kind. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- from comp.windows.x ------- MIT X Consortium anonymous ftp repository has moved! No responses rws@expo.lcs.mit.EDU Bob Scheifler at The Internet We have moved our anonymous ftp repository to export.lcs.mit.edu (address 18.30.0.238). I'm sure this will cause some confusion at first, but the move was made to lessen the load on expo. No other changes have been made; the xstuff mail daemon and mailing lists still reside on expo. ------------------------------- ./pub/XTEST total 12894 -r--r--r-- 1 root 675 Aug 7 1989 CHECKSUMS.BSD -r--r--r-- 1 root 647 Aug 7 1989 CHECKSUMS.SYSV -r--r--r-- 1 root 3117 Aug 7 1989 README -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.aa -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ab -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ac -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ad -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ae -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.af -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ag -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ah -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ai -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.aj -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ak -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.al -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.am -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.an -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ao -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ap -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.aq -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ar -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.as -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.at -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.au -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.av -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.aw -r--r--r-- 1 root 524288 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ax -r--r--r-- 1 root 511845 Aug 7 1989 suite.tar.Z.ay ---------------------------------------- ================== ./pub/XTEST/README ================== The Alpha release of the X Testing Consortium's X Test Suite is now available via anonymous ftp to expo.lcs.mit.edu (18.30.0.212), in the directory /pub/XTEST/, as a split compressed tar file. The distribution is approximately 36Mb uncompressed. The X Testing Consortium was formed (prior to the formation of the MIT X Consortium) to develop code suitable for testing the correctness and robustness of vendor implementations of the X Window System. This release of the test suite contains the following components: 1. Protocol Sanity Tests. These test the server's basic ability to accept all legal message types and respond appropriately, test aspects which cannot be tested adequately from Xlib, and test basic server functionality that the Xlib tests depend on. 2. Xlib Tests. Comprehensive tests for most routines and macros in the Xlib interface, testing both Xlib and the server. Includes pixel validation of graphics requests. 3. Xlib Test Specifications. Informal written specifications of what the Xlib Tests should do. 4. Volume/Stress Tests. Tests server robustness with high data load and high computational load sustained over both short and long periods of time, and provides a framework for adding additional tests. 5. Client Exerciser. Utilities for recording and playing back scripts of user actions (keyboard and pointer events), for the purpose of testing clients. The utilities make use of the Input Synthesis Extension (distributed as part of X11 Release 3 from MIT). 6. Graphics Benchmark. Yet another graphics benchmark tool. 7. Interactive Xlib. A test program which will read and execute Xlib functions and macros, both interactively and from input control files. 8. Gbench. A graphics benchmark tool from Stanford. This was not developed by the X Testing Consortium, it is simply included here as another utility. We are attempting to arrange for the MIT Software Center to distribute the test suite on mag tape for the cost of distribution. Once the arrangements are in place, information will be posted to this list. This is an ALPHA release of the test suite. It is not complete, and there is no particular guarantee that any problems reported by this suite are really bugs in your Xlib or server implementation, they may well be bugs in the test suite itself. The contents of this tape are not endorsed as any form of standard by the X Consortium. This test suite is the result of considerable work by numerous people in the companies making up the X Testing Consortium, and we are indebted to them. MIT was not directly involved in the development of the test suite, but did meet with the X Testing Consortium on a regular basis. This release of the test suite has not gone through MIT's configuration and build process, so it may take some effort to build the suite on your machine. Although there is much work left to be done, this test suite represents an excellent beginning. With this release, the X Testing Consortium is disbanding, but the MIT X Consortium will continue the development of X testing software.