[webkit-dev] Handling failing reftests

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Thu Apr 12 11:01:11 PDT 2012


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> This is an interesting situation; does it make sense to require our
> reftests to be generic, or is that unrealistic? I also wonder if we
> should allow  platform-specific pixel tests to coexist with
> platform-specific reference tests (since you could obviously write a
> platform-specific ref test that just displayed a single IMG, but the
> tools don't make that particularly easy).
>

Allowing platform-specific pixel results for a ref test is a bad idea IMO.
It makes things even more complicated and harder to understand than it
already is today.

- Ryosuke
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