[webkit-dev] WPT tests and runtime-enabled features

[Philip Jägenstedt]

FWIW, in Chromium, if we had an off-by-default feature that we wanted to
test using wpt, we would probably use the
https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/third_party/WebKit/LayoutTests/VirtualTestSuites
mechanism.

On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 1:03 AM, youenn fablet <youennf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ali,
>
> Yes this is something we should have a solution for. Right now, we have
> two ways:
> - Enabling the runtime-enabled flag only in DumpRenderTree/
> WebKitTestRunner
> - Updating WebKit testharnessreport.js to call internal APIs for some/all
> WPT tests
>
> Ideally, we should be able to set additional configuration information to
> WPT tests without modifying them.
> A configuration file alongside the WPT test might be feasible and could
> supersede the <!--- webkit-test-runner [enableFeatureName=true] -->
> technique.
> Folder-based hierarchical configuration might be nice but I am unsure
> whether that would meet the complexity tradeoff bar.
> Nothing yet started there so any help would be greatly appreciated!
>     y
>
> Le ven. 2 juin 2017 à 13:37, Ali Juma <ajuma at chromium.org> a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While a feature is in development behind a runtime-enabled flag, is there
>> a way to write tests in web-platform-tests that enable the feature when
>> they're run as part of LayoutTests? Adding "<!--- webkit-test-runner
>> [enableFeatureName=true] -->" tags would technically work but seems a bit
>> questionable.
>>
>> The point of this would be to be able to use web platform tests as
>> regression tests while developing a feature, allowing the tests to be
>> upstreamed sooner and saving having to write them outside of
>> web-platform-tests first and then move them over later.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ali
>>
>
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