[webkit-dev] Why are we running Sputnik?

[Avi Drissman]

Maybe a comment in the text_expectations file to point out where they are
run might be a good idea.

Avi

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov at chromium.org>wrote:

> 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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