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24 Oct 2024

Crash fix part 5: crash report tool

In previous blog posts about crashes in LibreOffice, I have discussed how to debug and fix some

17 Oct 2024

WSL for building LibreOffice

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a mechanism to use complete Linux distributions on Windows. Here I discuss how to use

3 Oct 2024

Setting dialogs that are available via UNO Commands

LibreOffice options page provides rich set of settings for everyone who wants to tune LibreOffice to match

15 Aug 2024

Extending the UNO API

Various functionalities of the LibreOffice are available through its programming interface, the UNO API. Here I discuss how to extend it.

What

29 Jul 2024

Fuzz testing to maintain LibreOffice code quality

Here I discuss what fuzz testing is, and how LibreOffice developers use it incrementally to maintain LibreOffice code

25 Jul 2024

LibreOfficeKit for document conversion

In the previous blog post, I provided a brief introduction to LibreOfficeKit API which one can use for accessing LibreOffice

27 Jun 2024

LibreOfficeKit API in action

If you want to use LibreOffice functionality in your applications, LibreOfficeKit API is one of the good ways to do that.

30 May 2024

Porting Java tests to C++

In this blog post, I discuss porting Java tests from Java to C++. We have many Java tests, and porting

14 May 2024

Crash fixes, part 4: assertion failure

In the previous parts of the blog posts series on fixing software crashes, I have written about some crash

18 Apr 2024

Crash fixes part 3 – Testing crashes

I have previously discussed fixing crashes in 2 parts (segfaults, aborts). Here I discuss testing crashes