[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 86889] should we get rid of the SLOW modifier in test_expectations.txt?

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86889





--- Comment #16 from Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org>  2012-05-18 17:26:43 PST ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > (In reply to comment #13)
> > > Sure. My point is more that skipping tests that are not themselves the direct cause of the crash would just mean an ever growing list of skipped tests.
> > 
> > Of course, right now we have an ever-growing list of flaky crashing tests :). My hope (probably overly optimistic) is that people would treat a test being skipped as more serious than a test being marked as flaky, and would be more inclined to dig into it.
> 
> Do we know that to be true? My experience is that we tend to think the situation w/ test_expectations.txt is worse than it actually is.

Well, there's about 132 flaky crashes listed in test_expectations.txt :). There are about 6 non-flaky expectations.

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