[webkit-dev] Removing --pixel-tests from DRT/WTR

[Balazs Kelemen]

     Hi webkittens!

I am going to upload a patch to 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92398 
<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92398> that will remove the 
--pixel-tests option from test drivers. Don't worry, I don't want to 
kill pixel testing, I want to be able to control it per test so we can 
filter what tests to run as pixel tests. I already implemented it in 
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/123729 for WebKitTestRunner and Qt DRT, 
so now those drivers accept an optional '--pixel-test' arg after the 
test name so the test harness can specify whether to dump pixels for 
each test separately. (Note that the hash is not enough because there 
are cases when we may want to run pixel tests but we don't pass the 
hash, like with --reset-results or when the expected image is missing.) 
Now I'm going to make it work for every DRT, and after that there will 
be no need for the --pixel-tests command line option.

But there is a question that I should ask first: is there anybody 
relying on running DRT manually, and passing --pixel-tests on the 
command line? Do you think it can be useful? (Maybe for debugging?) 
There is no technical problem of keeping it for this use case but I 
think it's better to remove if there is no strong need for it.

Cheers,
kbalazs

<https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92398>
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