EYRING@cc.utah.edu (04/15/91)
Does anyone have information concerning come code that will do record/playback for X ? There was a reference here about a week ago but no info.
tay@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Mike Taylor) (04/19/91)
Appended are two replies to a similar queery on comp.sys.hp.
Peace,
Mike Taylor
Current Products Engineering & Online
Interface Technology Operation
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"I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal!"
- Zaphod Beeblebrox
The "Client Exerciser Tools" (a.k.a. xtmrecord, xtmexecute, and
xtmconvert) were distributed as part of the alpha test suite
distribution from the MIT X Consortium. Here is a copy of their
announcement:
>From rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu Wed Aug 16 08:26:39 1989
>Subject: X Test Suite
>
>
>The X Test Suite can now be ordered from the MIT Software Center. The
>suite is available on one 2400ft, 1600bpi 9-track magnetic reel to reel
>tape written in UNIX tar format. No other distribution format is
>available from MIT. The tape contains source code and is distributed
>with a hardcopy of the documentation.
>
>
>
>To obtain a copy of the X Test Suite, please send a check drawn on a
>U.S. bank payable to the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" for US
>$200 to:
>
>
> MIT Software Center
> Bldg. E32-300
> 28 Carleton Street
> Cambridge, MA 02139
>
>Please send wire transfers to:
>
> First National Bank of Boston
> 100 Federal Street
> Boston, MA 0211)
>
> Acct #51463306
>
> Reference: (your company name)M.I.T. Technology Licensing Office
>
>
>Please send a shipping address with your order. P.O. Boxes are
>undeliverable via UPS.
>
>
>If you have ordering questions, you can call the X Hotline at (617) 258-8330.
Note that this was posted in 1989, and availability may have changed.
Larry Woestman
Member of Technical Staff
Interface Technology Operation
Hewlett Packard Co.
1000 NE Circle Blvd.
Corvallis, Or. 97330
email: larry@cv.hp.com or hplabs!hp-pcd!larry
phone: (503) 750-4111
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 :-(
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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.
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./pub/XTEST
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-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
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./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.