[webkit-dev] Best way to skip whole directories of layout tests

[Dirk Pranke]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Xianzhu Wang <wangxianzhu at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to skip several whole directories for chromium-android because of the
> related features are not available. For example, plugin/.
>
> 1. Add the following line in platform/chromium/TestExpectations:
> WONTFIX SKIP ANDROID : plugin
>
> This works for most of the tests except for some tests that have expectation
> rules like:
> BUGWK60822 : plugins/get-url-with-javascript-url.html = TIMEOUT
>
> I must change the above line to
> BUGWK60822 LINUX WIN MAC : plugins/get-url-with-javascript-url.html =
> TIMEOUT
> to get it skipped on chromium-android, but this need to change many lines
> and I think this would also increase the cost of maintenance.
>

If you're worried about this then implementing
Port.skipped_layout_tests() is the way to go.