On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Ojan Vafai wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote:
>> On the one hand, it's good to shift the default. On the other hand, many 
>> render tree dumping tests do not currently need to run any JavaScript 
>> script, while many text-only tests do. I would almost suggest having a 
>> per-directory default but that might be too confusing and mysterious.
>> 
>> Yeah, I thought about having per-directory defaults too. There are some nice 
>> things about that. For example, the editing tests mostly want something in 
>> between dumpAsText and a render dump. It would be great if we could default 
>> those to dumpAsMarkup (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26501).
> <3 dumpAsMarkup
> 
> In the webkit-meeting discussion about reducing platform-specific tests, Adam 
> brought up the idea that we could have a file that lists all the tests that 
> default to dumpAsRenderTree, move the default over to dumpAsText and then 
> gradually mark tests appropriately as dumpAsRenderTree and remove them from 
> the list.
> 
> We might want to leave some directories as defaulting to dumpAsRenderTree as 
> they're tests that we imported from elsewhere (e.g. the CSS2.1 tests). We can 
> annotate the file appropriately listing just the directories. So, eventually, 
> that file will be a few lines.
> 
> I think moving to just having dumpAsText be the default is better than having 
> per-directory defaults.

dumpAsText also turns off pixel results, which seems like a loss of useful 
testing. What's the plan there?

Simon

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