"Re-run this program" with testdrive

Bug #704675 reported by Jonathan Lange
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Bug Description

We were having a chat today about lp:start-hacking and we thought of something that might be cool for testdrive.

It would be nice if there were a feature that would let you click on a running application window, and then have testdrive fire up a newer Ubuntu and then run the same application as the one you clicked, passing the same arguments and maybe environment. This would make it very easy to confirm whether a bug still exists in a newer Ubuntu.

Changed in testdrive:
status: New → Triaged
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Daniel Kessel (dkessel) wrote :

The second part could probably be implemented by patching some part of the ISO file, so that once the live session starts, it also downloads and installs the named package, and then runs the executable.

For the first part, it looks like lp:start-hacking already has some code for identifying the package for an open window.

I am not sure how one would go about cloning the process's "environment", though.

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