Help needed: BSTR cache testing

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Fri Oct 9 08:44:54 CDT 2009


Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com> writes:

> Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
>> Blackbox reverse engineering is feeding test input to a function and
>> looking at the output. A trace of calls made by the native MS dll
>> while looking under Wine isn't blackbox. It is considered about the
>> same as looking at disassembled Microsoft code.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how to proceed from this though.
> He probably can still write the test case; I really doubt that Alexandre
> will accept a patch to fix the issue. Somebody else would have to do it
> based on Markus' description.

If the test case is based on observing internal behavior that's not
acceptable either. Even if someone else fixes it, the test would force
the fixer to replicate internal details.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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