Re: Presenting Keytest at LinuxConf 2011

2011-01-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I understand that even the threaded export bugs have > started hitting users. yes you never know which bug turns into a 'real' one. the c-t c-t c-t... report or iconv one didn't help to fix but once we gained the idea from others it was good to have backtraces in hand

Re: Presenting Keytest at LinuxConf 2011

2011-01-19 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
> If you want, you can send me your presentation some time, and I can > give you some feedback and/or we can do some brainstorming about it. I now have a draft presentation: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~john/drafts/LCA_Da11-diag.pdf On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >

Re: Presenting Keytest at LinuxConf 2011

2010-12-30 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
> the machine also produces bugs which would not occur to the normal user. then > you have new kind of problem - you dont want to close the bug, since it really > crashes, on the other hand, there is no manpower or willingness to fix all > weird corner cases. then you need to screw your brain and u

Re: Presenting Keytest at LinuxConf 2011

2010-12-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > - Keytest can automatically add bisection information etc. i would say that this is the fundamental feature, because you have commit in your hand and can give it to the responsible person. > - Keytest can provide bug reports in trunk when the code is fresh and > bef

Presenting Keytest at LinuxConf 2011

2010-12-29 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
Hi, I've been offered a spot to present keytest at LinuxConf 2011. There has been previous discussion of monkey testing as a cost-effective way of finding bugs. I was thinking of presenting an argument that keytest generated bugs reports can also be of higher quality than typical user generated bug