[webkit-dev] Why are we running Sputnik?

[Mads Sig Ager]

The V8 buildbots are running the sputnik tests and they do catch
regressions for us. In the V8 repository we have a list of V8 test
expectations for the sputnik tests.

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/v8/waterfall

-- Mads

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
> 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.txt
> that "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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