[webkit-dev] layout tests: how are some compared against image, and others only text?

[Ryosuke Niwa]

This is probably more appropriate for webkit-help but...

In general, tests that call layoutTestController.dumpAsTest()
or layoutTestController.dumpAsTest(false) and ref tests don't have
expected.png files.

I'm not aware of tests that don't require expected.txt however. Maybe
they're specific to some canvas tests?

- Ryosuke

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Elliot Poger <epoger at chromium.org> wrote:

> What is it that causes some tests to require baseline images (and not text
> files) for comparison, while others require text and not image baselines?
>
> (I know that I can specifically SKIP comparison against IMAGE and/or TEXT
> using test_expectations.txt... but even without the use of
> test_expectations, I believe that some tests are compared against only text
> or only image.)
>
> As an example, I see that this test has only image baselines and no text
> baselines:
>
> $ ls LayoutTests/platform/*/fast/canvas/canvas-text-baseline*.png | wc -l
> 10
> $ ls LayoutTests/platform/*/fast/canvas/canvas-text-baseline*.txt | wc -l
> ls: cannot access
> LayoutTests/platform/*/fast/canvas/canvas-text-baseline*.txt: No such file
> or directory
> 0
>
> while this test has only text baselines and no image baselines:
>
> $ ls LayoutTests/platform/*/fast/canvas/canvas-lineWidth*.png | wc -l
> ls: cannot access
> LayoutTests/platform/*/fast/canvas/canvas-lineWidth*.png: No such file or
> directory
> 0
> $ ls LayoutTests/platform/*/fast/canvas/canvas-lineWidth*.txt | wc -l
> 5
>
> Is there something inherent in each test that indicates whether its
> results will be compared against image and/or text baselines?  Or is it
> simply a matter of what baseline files are found to compare against?
>
>
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