Yes, the intention is to have something maintainable that gets run as part
of the regular testing/merging/etc. process -- which means eventually
rewriting in python.  I wrote this in Java because we had a java lib for
automatically creating bugs in the issue tracker, and I wanted to get it up
and running quickly.  We should have a python API for doing the same thing.

I can easily change the script so it marks DEFERs as P3s.  However,
currently, the script doesn't alter any entries in the file that already
have bugs -- meaning something like "BUG1234 DEFER : ..." or "WONTFIX DEFER
: ..." won't change.  Is this the correct behavior?

I'm planning on running the script later today with the most recent version
of test_expectations.txt -- there will be 200+ new bugs.  Let me know if I
should hold off on doing so.  Ojan, I'll send you the review for
test_expecations.txt.

Regards,
Glenn



On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote:

> I hate to ask this, but any chance we could rewrite it in python? It would
> be a lot less code in python (one script file) and would match the rest of
> our codebase (which currently does all scripting in python). I'm mainly
> worried about usability and maintainability here.
> That all said, I think you should go ahead and run this script as a one off
> so we can get the test lists having bug IDs ASAP as that's kind of urgent to
> us being able to track the current state of layout tests. Then we can worry
> about checking in a python version later if we decide it's necessary.
>
> Pam, Darin, Jon, Mark: You might want to confirm that my request below
> makes sense with respect to future handling/triaging of layout tests bugs.
>
> Also for the initial one-off version, can you make any tests that are
> currently marked as DEFER be P3s? Then when you spit out the results to the
> test_expectations file, I don't think there's any need to include the DEFER
> anymore as we'll rely entirely on bug priorities to decide which tests need
> fixing for the next release (i.e. all P1 tests and maybe some P2 tests).
> That way there will be less initial triaging to do in order to make sure we
> keep the tree shippable. Eventually we'll have to go through all the P3s in
> the "Untriaged" state and up some of them to P2s, but there is no pressing
> need to do so right away.
>
> Ojan
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Glenn Wilson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> (Ack...resending)
>> Ok, I have the CL ready, if anyone with Java readability would be willing
>> to do a review, please let me know.
>> more inline...
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Pam Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At a quick glance, this looks great. I didn't look over every bug, but
>>>> the ones I did look at look good.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yep. You'll want some sort of default description for the ones that have
>>> none.
>>>
>>
>> I ran the script on a small test file...an example bug is here:
>> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9991
>>
>> There's at least a small bit of indication of where it came from.  I also
>> added the line numbers from test_expectations.txt  that generated the bug.
>>  Additionally, I also wrote the script to then add the created bug numbers
>> to the file.  This ends up re-arranging some of the flags (DEBUG DEFER ...
>> etc. --> DEFER DEBUG ...), but all data is retained.
>>
>>
>>> 200+ bugs is certainly too many, but that's no reason not to file them.
>>> (Sorry, couldn't resist. Seriously, yes, definitely file them. Better in the
>>> issue tracker than getting lost.)
>>>
>>
>> There are probably some improvements to be had to better group some of the
>> bugs, but it's probably not an order of magnitude improvement.   I just
>> didn't want to create tons of bugs that were not useful.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> It would be great to check in a version of this script that we could run
>>>> when a number of tests fail (e.g. when doing a bad webkit merge). That way,
>>>> we can add them all to the local test_expectations.txt file and have it 
>>>> spit
>>>> out the new results.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Fixing the file we have and moving forward are slightly different use
>>> cases, but yes. In the long run, we shouldn't need any script to fix an
>>> existing bug-less expectations file, only the part that adds bugs for newly
>>> added tests. I'm not sure whether that part should be controlled by adding
>>> the tests to the file and having the script file bugs, or making it a fully
>>> interactive "app": give it a list of files and a description, and it both
>>> changes the file and creates a bug.
>>>
>>
>> There may be a short-term solution and a long-term solution.  The short
>> term solution seems to be for someone (assumedly the merger) to add the
>> failing tests to the file, run the script, then commit the file.  In the
>> long term, this could be one step, or perhaps be driven right from a "roll
>> DEPS to new version of WebKit" script...right?
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Really, it would be great if the script filed bugs and then just
>>>> modified test_expectations.txt directly (without committing it). Also, the
>>>> script should remove any comments it moves into bug descriptions. We should
>>>> get to a point where all the comments about layout tests are in the bug
>>>> descriptions themselves instead of in this file.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I disagree with this last part. I'd prefer a brief description to remain
>>> in the file, with any details in the bug. Certainly that's needed for
>>> WONTFIX bugs, where we may not have a bug since there's no work to be
>>> tracked, but it's helpful for others too. I've found it frustrating and
>>> time-consuming to track down when I see big blocks of failures with no
>>> explanations at all. Think of it like the svn checkin comment: enough to
>>> have an idea what's going on right there where you need it, with more detail
>>> in the bug for when you're really digging.
>>>
>>
>> Yep, I modified the script so that it will change test_expectations.txt to
>> have the bug number (you'd just need to commit it afterwards).  It's pretty
>> easy to for the script to clip out the comments, but I'm reluctant to,
>> because the script may be over/under zealous in what comments it associates
>> with a layout test.  Maybe I can add that behavior as another command-line
>> flag.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> - Pam
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think it would be good to get the script checked in first and then run
>>>> it on the existing test_expectations.txt file.
>>>>
>>>> Ojan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Glenn Wilson <[email protected]>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Pam & Ojan,
>>>>> I wrote a script that would extract all of the layout tests from
>>>>> test_expectations.txt that we haven't marked as WONTFIX and don't have a 
>>>>> bug
>>>>> number.   I also tried a simple heuristic to get the context of the layout
>>>>> test via nearby comments....it's not perfect, and I'll have to change some
>>>>> of them by hand, but many of the merge comments are getting picked up.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've also hooked up our library for creating demetrius bugs, so getting
>>>>> bugs made for these should be a matter of running the script with 
>>>>> different
>>>>> arguments (I hope).
>>>>>
>>>>> What are your thoughts?  Is these as descriptive/accurate as we need?
>>>>>  Is 200+ bugs too many?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Glenn
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>

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