[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 82245] W3C testharness.js tests should not require an -expected.txt file

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82245





--- Comment #3 from Alan Stearns <stearns at adobe.com>  2012-03-26 15:27:49 PST ---
That's a fair point. I am mostly concerned with maintenance - if there is no discrepancy in behavior, it's extra work to generate and maintain that separate file.

I'm assuming most of the cases where WebKit intentionally differs from the 'correct' behavior are actually problems with the W3C test suite. When that's the case we should be getting the W3C test suite fixed rather than maintaining the diff in our output.

I find it a bit odd that it's useful to track progress towards conformance by having a set of tests "pass" against expected failures. Wouldn't it be better to have the actual expected result with the test skipped until it conforms?

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