David Röthlisberger

david@rothlis.net | @drothlis

Software

• stb-tester — automated user interface testing for set-top boxes, smart TVs & consoles.
  2012 – 2024.
• How to learn emacs — a guide focused on self-driven discovery using the Emacs built-in help and source code.
  2012.
• clang-ctags — generate a "tags" index file for C++ source code, using the clang C++ compiler's parsing libraries.
  2012.
• gstreamer-completion — bash-completion scripts for the GStreamer command-line tools.
  2012.

Talks & videos

• Automated set-top box testing with GStreamer and OpenCV at the Google Test Automation Conference, New York (16 minutes)
  23 Apr 2013.
• The Smalltalk development environment (3 minutes)
  18 Aug 2011.

Articles

• Experience report: Linux pwm-ir-tx accuracy/reliability
  12 Mar 2023.
• Testing an Apple TV GUI with GPT-3 and Stb-tester
  13 Oct 2022.
• “Vendor branch” in a git monorepo
  4 Oct 2022.
• Simple declarative schema migration for SQLite
  30 Apr 2022.
• Improving Ninja's "-d explain" output
  21 Feb 2022.
• I think the server-side-rendering crowd are onto something — a story about testing
  18 Feb 2022.
• OSTree and Ninja; or, Merkle trees and Build systems (published on LWN.net)
  28 May 2020.
• 50% of Machine Learning studies using [particular medical dataset] fundamentally flawed
  17 Feb 2020.
• Running tests on remote hardware from your IDE, with pytest
  28 Jan 2020.
• Better tooling for PageObjects — A series of articles on the "PageObject", which is a software design pattern used in automated testing of graphical user interfaces
  Jun 2019.
  1. Attaching the application's state to PageObjects
  2. Characterisation tests for faster PageObject development
  3. Live documentation: Show me the relevant PageObjects for the page I'm looking at (coming soon)
  4. PageObject-aware record/playback tools (coming soon)
  5. Re-usable navigation functions parameterised by PageObjects (coming soon)
  6. Generating test-cases automatically from your PageObjects (coming soon)
• Test.ai's Appium plugin: How does it work, and how accurate is it?
  21 Nov 2018.
• The Ninja build tool (published on LWN.net)
  16 Nov 2016.
• Benchmarking the Ninja build system
  4 Nov 2016.
• Writing a large build system with GNU make
  24 Jun 2013.
• Shell scripts: Perils of "set -e" for error handling
  12 May 2013.
• A report from the Google Test Automation Conference (published on LWN.net)
  1 May 2013.
• Unix shell basics (rough notes)
  4 Oct 2012.
• Distracting syntax highlighting
  10 Nov 2011.
• The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 on OS X
  7 Feb 2011.
• Experiments with template meta-programming in D
  19 Nov 2010.
• The C++ compilation model
  
  8 Nov 2010.