[comp.windows.x] Journaling - Testing X applications

teb@execu.UUCP (Thomas E. Bernhard) (01/06/89)

I'm looking for ways to test our X applications that can be
done in a (semi)automatic fashion. I have heard of a journaling
capability planned for X. Does anyone have any details?
Are there ways to implement a record playback easily?
Lacking any playback, what is the best way to test a product in
X short of hiring lots of people to continually bang out all the
options?


-- Tom Bernhard                 execu!teb@cs.utexas.edu
-- Execucom Systems             (512) 346-4980
-- Austin, Texas

jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) (01/07/89)

From article <407@execu.UUCP>, by teb@execu.UUCP (Thomas E. Bernhard):
> I'm looking for ways to test our X applications that can be
> done in a (semi)automatic fashion. I have heard of a journaling
> capability planned for X. Does anyone have any details?
> 

	I have implemented an initial system for capture and playback
of user events for Sun based X machines. This is in the process of
pre-betasite and should be posted to the net in a couple of weeks.

	This was a "couple of weeks" timeframe the last time I
mentioned this project, the delay has been due to the holidays. Our
news feed was down as well as people being out of town on vacation
(myself included).

	The work that I did is a good base, but there needs to be a
little more effort to make the system useful. My management has taken
me off this effort :-{ so I will have to release what I have done and
let others pickup the ball. Such is life.

	Sun is doing a more polished effort, from what I have been
told, to incorporate this more directly into their functionality for
the merged X11/NeWS server. This is due out sometime this summer.


> -- Tom Bernhard                 execu!teb@cs.utexas.edu


-Jim Becker	...!sun!athsys!jim