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Updated regression testing documentation.

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<chapter id="cvs-regression">
<title>How to do regression testing using Cvs</title>
<title>How to do regression testing using CVS</title>
<para>
written by Gerard Patel
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<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Get the 'full cvs' archive from winehq. This archive is
the cvs tree but with the tags controlling the versioning
Get the <quote>full CVS</quote> archive from winehq. This archive is
the CVS tree but with the tags controlling the versioning
system. It's a big file (> 40 meg) with a name like
wine-cvsdirs-&lt;last update date> (it's more than 100mb
when uncompressed, you can't very well do this with
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<para>
untar it into a repository directory:
<screen>
cd /home/gerard
tar -zxfcvs-dirs-2000-05-20.tar.gz
mv wine repository
cd /home/gerard
tar -zxf cvs-dirs-2003-01-15.tar.gz
mv wine repository
</screen>
</para>
</listitem>
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<command>cvs</command> will think it's part of the
repository and deny you an extraction in the repository:
<screen>
cd /home/gerard
mv wine wine_current (-> this protects your current wine sandbox, if any)
export CVSROOT=/home/gerard/repository
cd /home/gerard
cvs -d $CVSROOT checkout wine
cd /home/gerard
mv wine wine_current (-> this protects your current wine sandbox, if any)
export CVSROOT=/home/gerard/repository
cd /home/gerard
cvs -d $CVSROOT checkout wine
</screen>
</para>
<para>
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</para>
<para>
Note also that it is possible to do all this with a direct
Cvs connection, of course. The full cvs file method is less
painful for the winehq cvs server and probably a bit faster
CVS connection, of course. The full CVS file method is less
painful for the winehq CVS server and probably a bit faster
if you don't have a very good net connection.
</para>
<note>
<para>
If you use Cvs directly from the winehq.com server, do not
If you use CVS directly from the winehq.com server, do not
forget to add to your <filename>.cvsrc</filename> file:
</para>
<screen>
cvs -z 3
update -dPA
diff -u
cvs -z 3
update -dPA
diff -u
</screen>
</note>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
you will have now in the <filename>~/wine</filename>
directory an image of the cvs tree, on the client side.
directory an image of the CVS tree, on the client side.
Now update this image to the date you want:
<screen>
cd /home/gerard/wine
cvs -d $CVSROOT update -D "1999-06-01 EDT"
cd /home/gerard/wine
cvs -d $CVSROOT update -D "2002-06-01 CST"
</screen>
</para>
<para>
The date format is <literal>YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS</literal>.
Using the EDT date format ensure that you will be able to
Using the CST date format ensure that you will be able to
extract patches in a way that will be compatible with the
wine-cvs archive : http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-cvs
wine-cvs archive
<ulink url="http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-cvs">
http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-cvs</ulink>
</para>
<para>
Many messages will inform you that more recent files have
been deleted to set back the client cvs tree to the date
you asked, for example:
<screen>
cvs update: tsx11/ts_xf86dga2.c is no longer in the repository
cvs update: tsx11/ts_xf86dga2.c is no longer in the repository
</screen>
</para>
<para>
<command>cvs update</command> is not limited to upgrade to
a <emphasis>newer</emphasis> version as I have believed for far too long :-(
a <emphasis>newer</emphasis> version as I have believed for
far too long :-(
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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Now proceed as for a normal update:
</para>
<screen>
./configure
make depend && make
./configure
make depend && make
</screen>
<para>
If any non-programmer reads this, the fastest method to get
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April, if not, to 1st October, and so on.
</para>
<para>
If you have lot of hard disk free space (a full compile takes
currently 400 Mb), copy the oldest known working version before
updating it, it will save time if you need to go back (it's
better to make distclean before going back in time, so you
have to make everything if you don't backup the older version)
If you have lot of hard disk free space (a full compile currently
takes 400 Mb), copy the oldest known working version before
updating it, it will save time if you need to go back. (it's
better to <command>make distclean</command> before going back in
time, so you have to make everything if you don't backup the older
version)
</para>
<para>
When you have found the day where the problem happened, continue
the search using the wine-cvs archive (sorted by date) and a
more precise cvs update including hour, minute, second :
<screen>
cvs -d $CVSROOT update -D "1999-06-01 15:17:25 EDT"
cvs -d $CVSROOT update -D "2002-06-01 15:17:25 CST"
</screen>
This will allow you to find easily the exact patch that did it.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
If you find the patch that is the cause of the problem, you have
almost won; report about it on <systemitem>comp.emulators.windows.wine</systemitem>
or susbscribe to wine-devel and post it there. There is a chance that the author
almost won; report about it to
<ulink url="http://bugs.winehq.com/">Wine Bugzilla</ulink>
or susbscribe to wine-devel and post it there. There is a chance
that the author
will jump in to suggest a fix; or there is always the possibility
to look hard at the patch until it is coerced to reveal where is
the bug :-)
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