[webkit-dev] Pixel test experiment

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Oct 7, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Nikolas Zimmermann wrote:

> Good evening webkit folks,
> 
> I've finished landing svg/ pixel test baselines, which pass with --tolerance 0 on my 10.5 & 10.6 machines.
> As the pixel testing is very important for the SVG tests, I'd like to run them on the bots, experimentally, so we can catch regressions easily.
> 
> Maybe someone with direct access to the leopard & snow leopard bots, could just run "run-webkit-tests --tolerance 0 -p svg" and mail me the results?
> If it passes, we could maybe run the pixel tests for the svg/ subdirectory on these bots?

Running pixel tests would be great, but can we really expect the results to be stable cross-platform with tolerance 0? Perhaps we should start with a higher tolerance level.

REgards,
Maciej