[webkit-dev] Including new IETestCenter tests in the LayoutTests

[Adam Barth]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Dave Tharp <dtharp at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> I am currently looking at the WebKit CSS3  failures on IETestCenter
> (http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/ietestcenter/ ).
>
> I’m making some progress, and getting ready to submit a patch.  I’ve
> contacted Beth Dakin about my approach on the first patch, and she says I
> should proceed.
>
> As part of the patch, of course I need to submit a passing layout test.
> This is where a question for the community arises:
>
> Presuming it is legal (I have my legal department looking at it),  I think
> it makes sense to bring in the tests verbatim from the IETestCenter site.  I
> do understand that there will likely be some overlap (thus, inefficiency) in
> coverage, but I think having a complete, identical set of tests will make it
> easier to verify WebKit’s performance in this test suite.  There is a
> precedent for this:  the IETestCenter javascript tests are already present
> in the LayoutTests tree.

Assuming there are no legal barriers, importing the whole test suite
would be valuable.  The LayoutTests contain a number of test suites
developed externally (e.g., acid3, W3C conformance tests).  Some of
these tests are redundant with other tests, but having the whole test
suite as a unit is valuable itself.

> The alternative is to write new tests or enhance existing tests in the
> current LayoutTests tree.
>
> I’m open to either approach,  just need some direction from the team.

That path is also fine.  I would encourage you to import all of the IE
test center CSS tests (assuming it passes legal muster).

Adam