Re: Appdb as application regression finder

[Tom Spear]

On 9/27/06, Chris Morgan  wrote:
> On 9/27/06, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> > The appdb has a "browse by ratings" page, e.g. you can
> > see all apps that have at least one Gold-rated version at
> > http://appdb.winehq.org/browse_by_rating.php?sRating=Gold
> >
> > This can serve as a kind of poor man's application regression finder;
> > look at each app on that page, and look for apps
> > whose latest version is rated lower than gold.
> >
> > For instance, WinZip is listed on the Gold page.
> > WinZip 9 is indeed rated gold, but winzip 10 is only silver.
> > Likesize, Sametime Connect has an old version rated gold,
> > and a new one rated garbage.
> >
> > If nothing else, it would be great for someone to look at
> > all such 'regressions', test them with current wine, and
> > update the appdb and bugzilla with what they find.
> > Who knows, maybe we can clear a few of these up without too much effort.
> > - Dan
>
> When test results were added Tony and myself talked about all kinds of
> interesting ways we could farm information from those results.
> Regression detection via test results is one of the interesting ways
> we can use the data in the appdb.  Basically we could look at the test
> results across differing versions of wine and look for cases where the
> rating decreased while the wine version increased.
>
> Another interesting one that I thought would be useful is to look for
> discrepancies between the results of the same application and version
> and same wine version across different linux distributions.  We could
> look at this on a large scale to see if some distributions had more
> problems than others for the same versions of wine.
>
> These are both pretty easy to implement.  If anyone is interested in
> doing so and would like some assistance feel free to email me.
>
> Chris

Also, on that note, just a helpful site pointer.  There are several
different chat and im clients that work on wine, as long as the correct
version is installed, while other versions dont work for squat.
oldversion.com has the majority of officially released versions of the most
popular ones, including but not limited to: AIM, ICQ, MSN, Trillian, and
Yahoo Messenger.

Hope that helps.