[Libreoffice-qa] Advanced Triaging - Tutorials?

[Nino Novak]

On 12.04.2015 21:25, Joel Madero wrote:

> There is a bug that needs some advanced QA work on it and I'm curious if
> anyone wants to take a stab at it and try to document the process
> (including screenshots and/or screen captures).
> 
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75554
> 
> Comment 6 describes what Michael needs.


AFAICS there are three major techniques addressed:

1) bibisecting the problem

2) reducing the document

3) stack tracing with debugging symbols


Techniques 1 + 3 are described in detail in the wiki:

1) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Bibisect

3) https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/How_to_debug
   and also for Windows:
   https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/How_to_get_a_backtrace_with_WinDbg


Technique 2, reducing the document, should be easy to do IMHO (though
tedious for big/complex documents): just remove all the objects from the
document one by one and at each step look if the problematic behavior is
still reproducible. As a first test, you can copy all contents from the
problematic document into a new document to exclude that there is some
(old/inherited) flaw in the document structure.


Nino