[webkit-dev] Why are we running Sputnik?

[Dimitri Glazkov]

No apologies necessary! This was illuminating to me too, even though I
_might have_ been the guy who put the "we probably don't want to run
these" comment in :P

:DG<

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> Clearly I was misinformed.  My apologies for using the webkit-dev list
> to track down this chromium-specific issue.
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mads Sig Ager <ager at chromium.org> wrote:
>> 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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