Looking for GUI application programs for experiments
Manuel Wolfshant
wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Tue May 15 19:35:55 UTC 2007
On 05/15/2007 10:28 PM, William Cohen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working with a couple researchers at North Carolina State
> University looking at the TLB behavior. Past studies in this area have
> used statically linked programs like SPEC CPU to provide workload for
> the simulator. This is very different than the typical shared-library,
> GUI application available on the desktop. We would like to have a
> sampling of workload programs that are more like the typical programs
> that people use on desktop machines. The characteristics we are
> looking for in the examples are:
>
> -represent commonly-performed tasks, e.g. edit file and view document
> -depend on a number of dynamically-linked libraries
> -use GUI
> -have built-in accessibility features needed to automate the
> experiment with dogtail
> -run for a couple seconds, so instrumented version doesn't take too long
> -doesn't require network access
>
> Currently, we have some example workloads using gthumb, evince, and
> abiword. They are driven by dogtail. We are looking for some
> additional examples to round out the experiments. Some GUI tests might
> be suitable for this, but would like to have examples that are more
> like normal person might use the software rather than a minimal test
> cases.
>
> -Will
>
my colleagues are very fond of nedit
More information about the devel
mailing list