[webkit-dev] Re-enabling pixel tests

Simon Fraser simon.fraser at apple.com
Thu Apr 4 19:41:42 PDT 2013


On Apr 4, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> Now that all Chromium contributors are gone to work on Blink, I'd expect we will have much lower rate of commits. We've also converted quite few tests to text-only or ref-tests over the years.
> 
> Can we do some mass rebaselines and re-enable pixel tests on Mac port now?
> 
> It's really bad to have no pixel test coverage in WebKit.
> 
> I would really like that.

I agree in principle. We should start by removing all of the cross-platform pixel results that are no-alpha PNGs.

However, whenever we've tried this in the past it's been a huge effort to maintain; OS updates require lots of rebaselining.

Simon


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