[webkit-dev] Best practices for landing new/changed layout test expectations?
Ryosuke Niwa
rniwa at webkit.org
Tue Feb 26 13:03:44 PST 2013
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Tom Hudson <tomhudson at google.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It should be fairly straight forward to create a tool that analyzes
> files
> >>> changed in each commit and deduce which tests' expected results have
> been
> >>> changed. The tool can then fetch results from each port' bot for those
> tests
> >>> and automatically land them. It can then comment on the bug
> automatically
> >>> about these rebaseline commits. There is no need to add & remove
> entries
> >>> from TestExpectation files.
>
> Wait, what?
>
> For some reason neither I nor the mailing list archives got your
> initial message, nor Silvia or Tom's responses, nor your responses
> (at least as of the time of me writing this), so I feel like I've
> missed a radical shift in this thread, and maybe I missed some of the
> context.
>
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-February/023967.html
You're proposing that we automatically land updated baselines without
> review and then somehow update bugs, have people go back and look at
> the updated bugs to see if the baseline changes represent actual
> regressions or just expected changes?
Right. Given that the commit already contains information as to which tests
have been rebaselined, a script should be able to fetch new baselines for
those affected tests on each platform and land them or upload as patches as
needed.
- R. Niwa
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