[webkit-dev] Another WPT bite

[Geoffrey Garen]

> Is it time to make testharness.js the recommended way of writing LayoutTests?

What are the costs and benefits of testharness.js?

We usually try to make regression tests reductions of some larger problem to aid debugging and to make testing fast. But testharness.js is 95kB. That's kind of the opposite of a reduction.

Geoff

> 
> To continue moving forward, some of us are proposing to serve all tests in LayoutTests/wpt through the WPT server [1].
> This would serve some purposes like increasing the use of WPT goodies: file-specific headers, templated tests (*.any.js), IDLParser, server-side scripts...
> It could also ease test migration from WebKit to W3C WPT.
> 
> Some rules can guide whether adding tests to LayoutTests/wpt or LayoutTests/imported/w3c/web-platform-tests:
> - WebKit specific tests (crash tests, tests using internals...) in LayoutTests/wpt
> - Spec conformance/interoperability tests in LayoutTests/imported/w3c/web-platform-tests
> 
>    y
> 
> [1]: bug 171479 <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171479>
> 
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