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lfaraone
lfaraone

Reputation: 50692

Collecting usage data for a desktop application

I'm going to be running some large scale usability tests of my software for a science project. We have a lab of about 30 computers running Windows XP. Our application is written in Python and PyGTK.

We want to be able to collect the following without staff intervention (automatically on our application start):

I think the last point is pretty straightforward, and I know how I'd store the data, but I don't know how I'd implement the other points.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 490

Answers (1)

Alex Martelli
Alex Martelli

Reputation: 882351

For your first point, I believe you can drive recordMyDesktop directly from your Python code pretty easily -- I haven't done so, myself, but the docs make it look easy (and both existing frontends to it are in Python).

For your second point, set sys.excepthook to intercept the exceptions and prepare your report via the traceback module.

For your third point, register the time at start (e.g. via datetime.datetime.now) and again at the point you care about, and log the difference.

Upvotes: 2

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