QCScraper ClientDataSet XML dump results – archive of qc.embarcadero.com

Since I’m pressed for time, but didn’t want to wait until putting the dumps on-line, below is a rendering of my gist QCScaper ClientDataSet XML dump results – README.md.

Wishing everybody a great holiday season!

This gist contains two QCScaper XML dumps of the http://qc.embarcadero.com content taken a few days after it came up.

There are four files: two files per dump (both in plain downloaded format as well as formatted with tidy -xml -utf8 for easier comparison, for instance with Beyond Compare).

Each file is compressed uzing 7-zip as the original files would each exceed the 100 megabyte gist size limit; please see https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#truncation

• (tidy) QCScraper.Anonymous.cds.xml.7z has the data that you get when you are not logged on at qc.embarcadero.com
• (tidy) QCScraper.Regular.cds.xml.7z was generated using a fresh new EDN account

There are slight differences because of the internal QC architecture, which you can for instance see in issue #7788

• http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=7788
• https://web.archive.org/web/20171221120117/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=7788
• https://archive.is/CEx5m

Hopefully I will find some time later to blog about this in a better way.

Related links:

• http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/2017/06/09/how-to-save-qualitycentral/ (describes QCScraper)
• http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/downloads/download-info/qcscraper-zip/ (QCScraper source code)
• http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/downloads/download-info/qcscraper-compiled-exe/ (QCScraper executable)
• https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/cdn4JGLp8P3 (asking for help in https://plus.google.com/communities/103113685381486591754)
• https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/bKigepTHdcE (asking for help on https://wiert.me/2017/12/20/qualitycentral-report-95543-an-overloaded-routine-cannot-be-assigned-to-the-method-reference/)
• https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/jbh7WBPs8MQ (QC issues I forgot to archive which I will do shortly)
• https://plus.google.com/+DalijaPrasnikar/posts/Z5nJ2A6Sy1X (QC being down earlier)
• https://wiert.me/2017/06/05/embarcadero-qualitycentral-is-dead-man-decades-of-customer-work-down-the-drain/ (which now at least temporarily has been undone)

Entries I still need to look at:

• https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=139278
• https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=139126
• https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=23840
• https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=118124

–jeroen

Related:

• QC overview: I wish I made WayBack copies when I drafted the below QC post last year sans [WayBack] links.
• Comment thread: [WayBack] I’ve archived the ClientDataSet XML file dumps from qc.embarcadero.com. It is the same data that an anonymous web-crawler would get when accessing the Q… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+