[webkit-dev] LayoutTests results fallback graph

[Adam Barth]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hum. I take it back ... it still wouldn't be a tree, since
>>>>> chromium-mac-leopard would fall back to chromium-mac-snowleopard, then
>>>>> mac-leopard, but chromium-mac-snow-leopard would fall back to
>>>>> mac-snowleopard (giving chromium-mac-snowleopard two parents). And it
>>>>> looks like chromium-mac-leopard picks up 3,494 baselines from
>>>>> mac-leopard :(.
>>>>
>>>> Can we create chromium-mac and move everything that's shared between
>>>> chromium-mac-leopard and chromium-mac-snowleopard there?
>>>> It seems wrong for chromium-mac-leopard to fallback to
>>>> chromium-mac-snowleopard.
>>>
>>> This somewhat surprising fallback strategy is common across ports.
>>> The "why" is explained on this wiki page:
>>>
>>> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/LayoutTestsSearchPath
>>>
>>
>> In addition, we do actually have a 'chromium-mac'; we don't have a
>> 'chromium-mac-snowleopard'. I think I mixed that in my mind while
>> typing this with the apple mac ports, where there are mac-leopard,
>> mac-sl, and mac ports (the latter representing lion/future).
>>
>> Once Lion ships, chromium will undoubtedly add a chromium-mac-snowleopard dir.
>>
>> -- Dirk
>>
>
> Okay, I pulled together a slightly more comprehensive report ... in
> short, we pull things from everywhere. Maybe this is useful to someone
> if they want to try and treeify the fallbacks :)
>
> The format should be fairly self-explanatory. It is a rollup report
> for all of the baselines, grouped on the combination of ports,
> platforms, and type of baselines. The first column is the
> port/platform configuration. The second is the location of the test
> ("generic" means not in a platform/* directory). The third is the type
> of baseline for the test, the fourth is the location of the baseline
> used, and the fifth is the total # of such baselines in that location.

To confirm my understanding:

This row means that the Chromium Mac port running on Snow Leopard gets
at least 5567 -expected.png files from the LayoutTests/platform/mac
directory?

chromium-mac-snowleopard,generic,png,mac,5567

This is great data!  If you're interested in crunching numbers, it
might be interested to hack up the deduplicate-tests script to figure
out how much of the possible sharing we're realizing with our current
fallback graph.

Adam