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

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--- Comment #18 from Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org>  2012-05-18 17:52:11 PST ---
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > Well, there's about 132 flaky crashes listed in test_expectations.txt :). There are about 6 non-flaky expectations.
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> Sure, but how many were there a year ago? How many of those still crash or are just incorrectly marked (this is something we can answer only if we run them).

Dunno, and fair questions. I would suspect that we would need some other process to deal with any tests (including ones we already have) that are marked with SKIP but not WONTFIX.

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