[webkit-dev] Why are we running Sputnik?

[Ojan Vafai]

Just looking at the history, it looks like when the tests were originally
checked in, they had no expected results. So someone on the chromium team
skipped them all. There's a comment in
http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/LayoutTests/platform/chromium/test_expectations.txtthat
"we probably don't want to run these", but I think that comment is
just
wrong.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:

> If these tests are actually valuable, then maybe my question then
> belongs: Why is Chromium no longer running these tests?  (Assuming my
> source is correct.)
>
> -eric
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 10, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 10.08.2010, в 14:00, Adam Barth написал(а):
> >>
> >>> A better long-term fix might be to finish new-run-webkit-tests so we
> >>> can run the tests in parallel.
> >>
> >>
> >> One reason to move the tests to run-javascriptcore-tests is that people
> working on JS run these more often (sometimes not even building WebCore
> until ready to submit a patch).
> >
> > If these tests can catch regressions from non-JS-engine changes (and
> according to Adam's message, they have done so at least once), then we need
> to run them in the full browser engine context, even if we also have a
> version that runs in a JS-only command-line tool.
> >
> > As another data point, some of the Sputnik tests are currently failing in
> WebKit2 on Mac, so they are detecting a problem that they wouldn't be able
> to if they ran JS-only.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Maciej
> >
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