[webkit-dev] We should rename layoutTestController to testController

[Jesus Sanchez-Palencia]

2012/5/31 Dan Bernstein <mitz at apple.com>:
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> On May 31, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
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>> I am thinking we should rename layoutTestController to testController. Or
>> if you don’t like that name, maybe testHarness or some even better name.
>
>
> "testController" seems like a misnomer since it doesn't really control the
> test itself. I would prefer testRunnerController or simply testRunner since
> it's quite self-evident that methods on testRunner would act on the test
> runner itself.
>
>
> I like the name testRunner.

I like it too.




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>> We could expose the object under the new name and the old one, and then
>> over time convert all the tests to the new name, then get rid of the old
>> one.
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>
> That sounds like a good idea.
>
> Can we also rename LayoutTests to RegressionTests? I know Dave (Hyatt)
> suggested to cleanup the render tree dump format to get rid of all hacks and
> tweaks we've added over years, and my preference is to combine all these
> efforts and put new types of tests in trunk/RegressionTests. We'll move
> tests from LayoutTests to RegressionTests as we convert. We'll get rid of
> LayoutTests directory once all tests have been converted to use testRunner
> and new render tree dump format.
>
> - Ryosuke
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