Re: Fwd: PROPOSED RESOLUTION: merge csswg-test into web-platform-tests

"L. David Baron" <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:24:43 -0700

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On Tuesday 2016-09-27 20:18 +0100, James Graham wrote:
> I think this argument is backwards. Today we don't run a recent copy of the
> CSS tests because there are technical issues preventing it from working with
> the reftest harness. It is not clear to me why this reorganisation would
> suddenly cause us to fix those issues when we could have done at any
> previous time with similar effort.

Because you were doing the work on the approach that uses your test
harness, and we didn't have anybody assigned to do the other work?

> On the other hand the change will allow
> us to run a copy of the CSS tests in wptrunner immediately for "free".
> Running more tests in wptrunner inevitably increases the chance of fixing
> issues with that harness both because it will be easier to prioritise the
> work and more people will be motivated to fix the issues.

I think running a large number of reftests in wptrunner will be an
unacceptable load on our CI infrastructure due to
https://bugzil.la/1265586 .

> Apologies for missing the bugs you pointed to at the time; I believe one of
> them has a solution and I will need to investigate the second issue (with
> debugger-related bugs I find it very helpful to get a set of steps to
> reproduce the problem).

I think those bugs are the very tip of an iceberg that involves many
person-months of work.

-David

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