[webkit-dev] Another WPT bite

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:01 PM, Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On May 8, 2017, at 10:44 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Brady Eidson <beidson at apple.com> wrote:
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>>> But now talking about testharness.js directly, I object on the grounds of "a
>>> file:// regression test is dirt easy to hack on and work with, whereas
>>> anything that requires me to have an httpd running is a PITA"
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>> I think whether we use file:// or http:// is orthogonal point to using
>> testharness.js.  Many of the tests Chris and I have written using
>> testharness.js are checked into regular LayoutTests/ directories, and
>> they work just fine.
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> Yes, I misunderstood this in Youenn's original message. Good to know!
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>>> I just object to making it the "recommended way" of writing tests.
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>> Would you equally object to making js-test.js / js-test-pre.js the
>> recommended way of writing tests?
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> Yes.
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>> If not, why?
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> N/A
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>> What we're suggesting is to give preferential treatments to
>> testharness.js over js-test.js / js-test-pre.js when you were already
>> planning to write a test with the latter two scripts.
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> "It's okay to write your test however you'd like. If you were considering using js-test, maybe you should consider using testharness instead."
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> Is that's what's being proposed?

The thing I specifically asked Youenn to ask is, whether we should
place a test inside LayoutTests/wpt like LayoutTests/http/tests when
we want to write a test using testharness.js which requires some sort
of network code.

Since people have had some opinions about directory structures in the past.

- R. Niwa