| 1 | how i test
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| 3 | 1) every now and then i run the testall.sh script over the incuded doc
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| 4 | files and a few selected trouble makers that ive received.
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| 6 | 2) i have a set of supported features documents that display what
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| 7 | mswordview should be able to do, i regularly check these to see if theres
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| 8 | any feature rot.
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| 10 | 3) occasionally i repeat the above test while using purify and identify
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| 11 | out of bounds and mem leaks.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | 4) once a week i run the huge test of (1) over the 300 megs of uploaded
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| 14 | documents that i have received on poor old skynet.csn.ul.ie, many of these
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| 15 | are not word 8 docs as people often upload rtf & word 6/7 & excel docs as
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| 16 | well, but its a good brute force test for crashes, but no good to see if
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| 17 | the conversion makes sense.
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| 18 |
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| 19 | 5) i scan through the comments tha uploaders make of their files to identify
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| 20 | trouble docs and visually scan the output, making changes if necessary.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | some tools
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| 24 | i still use laola's lls to help me find errors, its a great piece of kit
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| 25 | to have. i also gives me other ole code to compare against the one thats
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| 26 | included in mswordview, if both of them cant decode a file, then theres
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| 27 | pretty good evidence that somethings buggered in the ole tables, when word
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| 28 | hangs on them as well, thats probably becomes definite.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | never having gotten the hang of hexdump i use the little jhex script that
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| 31 | was posted in the linux-gazette at one stage as my hex reader. And theres
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| 32 | nothing like doing a diff on the text output of a hexdump to find what
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| 33 | changes between two versions of the same file, but with a different style
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| 34 | chosen.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | purify is also the biz for tracking down mem leaks and uninitilized memory
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| 37 | elements.
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