[webkit-dev] Increasing the number of cross-platform/port expected results

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Mar 1, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com>  
> wrote:
> On the one hand, it's good to shift the default. On the other hand,  
> many render tree dumping tests do not currently need to run any  
> JavaScript script, while many text-only tests do. I would almost  
> suggest having a per-directory default but that might be too  
> confusing and mysterious.
>
> Yeah, I thought about having per-directory defaults too. There are  
> some nice things about that. For example, the editing tests mostly  
> want something in between dumpAsText and a render dump. It would be  
> great if we could default those to dumpAsMarkup (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26501 
> ).

<3 dumpAsMarkup

>
> But, I agree, it's probably too confusing.
>
> Question: are text-only tests really faster, in non-pixel mode? I  
> would be surprised if there was a significant different, and it may  
> point to something we can optimize.
>
> I just meant that they are faster assuming you're running pixel  
> tests. Ideally we'd head in the direction of running pixel tests by  
> default one day. :)

Good point. If we always ran the pixel tests, then perhaps we should  
consider having some tests that dump the render tree but are not  
subject to pixel testing. I do think the platform-independence issue  
is a good reason to be strongly biased towards making new tests dump  
as text (or dump as markup, once that is added). Even if we do not  
change the default, we should recommend it as a good practice and  
reviewers should be on the lookout for this issue when reviewing  
patches.

Cheers,
Maciej

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