Would be nice to have a list of known regressions in release notes

Posted Feb 7, 2025 22:31 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Would be nice to have a list of known regressions in release notes by Wol
Parent article: LibreOffice 25.2 released

I'd like to see a framework where a user can record and submit a PR for a regression test that works in 24.2.x but fails in 24.8.x, and the CI system can verify both of those properties. They might still reject it if they decide that the behavior you got in 24.2.x wasn't what they think should have happened, but at least their test system would be reproducing it and they wouldn't have to ask the reporter what happens now.

Would be nice to have a list of known regressions in release notes

Posted Feb 8, 2025 19:31 UTC (Sat) by oever (guest, #987) [Link] (1 responses)

LibreOffice is in the luxurious position of having a record macro function.

A bug report with a macro is easier to verify and might be reused in a test to make sure the bug does not come back.

Would be nice to have a list of known regressions in release notes

Posted Feb 9, 2025 8:41 UTC (Sun) by callegar (guest, #16148) [Link]

Being able to easily create reproducible test cases using recorded macros would indeed be great. The macro recorder is unfortunately still a bit too limited for the general case. Main limitations are that:
- only works in Calc and Writer
- Actions that are not related to the document contents are not recorded (e.g., I believe the recorder would not record actions related to the gallery).
- The recording of selections is a bit problematic.