It doesn't take much of layoutTestController to run most of the LayoutTests. At one point, I had a student implement the low hanging fruit as a Firefox extension.
Adam On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Darin Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > I think if we should definitely make it possible to run layout tests in > Chrome. However, supporting all of layout test controller will be a > considerable amount of work, and I think we always want to maintain the > simpler test_shell environment for exercising webkit divorced from the rest > of chrome (to help minimize flakiness). > Two ways forward: 1) build the layout test controller as an extension, 2) > build a new multi-process test_shell. I think the first choice would be > best if we can pull it off. > > -Darin > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Mike Belshe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We're still using the test-shell to run the LayoutTests. I just fixed a >> bug, wrote a layout test, and then realized how dumb I was because the code >> I was testing was only in Chrome, and not in the test_shell. >> >> I think we're accumulating a lot of code that is chrome specific, but >> which could effect rendering and layout. In my case, I'm working on v8 >> extensions that have been put into the browser, but there is tons of code >> which differs between chrome and test shell. Not having layout tests for >> chrome itself is making me a bit nervous. >> 2 Questions: >> 1) Any plans already underway to run chrome rather than test_shell through >> the Layout Tests? >> 2) Should we create those plans :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Mike >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
