[webkit-dev] DRT/WTR should clear the cache at the beginning of each test?

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Ami Fischman <fischman at chromium.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Antti Koivisto <koivisto at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> When making cache related changes I have frequently found bugs from my
>> patches because some seemingly random test started failing and I
>> investigated. Without the test coverage some of those bugs would probably
>> now be in the tree.
>>
>
> That seems like an argument for writing more tests specifically for cache
> code, not for holding the entire rest of the tests corpus hostage.
>

I agree this is a good change but it appears that we should add more
cache/loader tests before changing DRT's behavior given that there are
active contributors who rely on the current DRT behaviors to detect
regressions.

- Ryosuke
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