help koffice: fix a test and report it here

Hi all,

As you should be aware there is a build server running for koffice that shows 
problems that are still left in the code and are considered release blockers. 
Most of these problems are very easy to fix, some are harder.

Here is a small guide on how you can help koffice reduce the number of release 
blockers. I hope people will try to fix some problems and report on their 
efforts in this thread.

The build server can be found here:
  http://158.36.191.251:8080/
Click on "Login as a Guest User" to log in.

Once logged in you'll see two projects:
  default: Tests failed 32, passed 1211
  kofficetests: Tests failed: 237, passed 2789

kofficetests is the easiest to help with. Click on the latest run and you'll see 
the details of the tests. kofficetests runs tests on a large collection of 
documents from the kofficetests repository.
  http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/tests/kofficetests/
  svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/tests/kofficetests

Each file is opened with one of these commands:
  kword --roundtrip-filename out.odt --benchmark-loading --nocrashhandler $file
  kpresenter --roundtrip-filename out.odp --benchmark-loading --nocrashhandler 
$file
  kspread --roundtrip-filename out.ods --benchmark-loading --nocrashhandler 
$file
If the file is a microsoft format, the '--roundtrip-filename' part is left out.
A test fails if either of these things happens:
  - the command crashed
  - the resulting file was invalid ODF (checked with 
koffice/tools/scripts/validateODF.py

Choose a test you think you can fix and once you committed the fix, the build 
server will re-run the tests.

To find, where in the code most crashes occur, have a look at the file 
backtraces.svg that can be found under 'Artifacts'. I have attached the latest 
one to this mail. I connects the code points leading to a crash in a nice 
graph. If the line is thicker, more files cause this crash.

Good luck,
Jos

-- 
Jos van den Oever, software architect
+49 391 25 19 15 53
http://kogmbh.com/legal/

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