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Don't we currently pass a large percentage of the LayoutTests/media tests?
Won't we lose coverage of these tests by doing this?
Maybe it's worth the savings maintenance cost until we have a complete
solution for them?

Ojan

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> BTW, about to filter out all LayoutTests/media out for now, skipping
> them. We can't have codecs for most of these tests, so we (Alpha and
> myself) decided it's easier to skip them for now. Permanent solution
> coming in Q4.
>
> :DG<
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Ojan Vafai<[email protected]> wrote:
> > I see what you're saying. I think the best solution here is to just have
> one
> > line with two bugs listed. This will also help whoever is going to fix
> the
> > test as they'll be able to easily see all the reason's it's failing.
> > BUG20376 BUG13907 WIN : LayoutTests/media/video-src-remove.html = TIMEOUT
> > FAIL
> > That OK?
> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes, but it's not flaky now.  If you'd like, I can move the commented
> out
> >> one down to right after the new version of it.  I think what'd be even
> >> better is if multiple entries for one layout test didn't cause the
> script to
> >> parse.  Or it'd at least be nice if we could list 2 bugs for one test.
> >> The commented out one is NOT dead....it's another type of failure that
> is
> >> currently overshadowed by the new type of failure.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Jeremy Orlow <[email protected]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:31 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://codereview.chromium.org/173555/diff/1/2
> >>>>> File webkit/tools/layout_tests/test_expectations.txt (right):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://codereview.chromium.org/173555/diff/1/2#newcode745
> >>>>> Line 745: //BUG13907 WIN : LayoutTests/media/video-src-remove.html =
> >>>>> FAIL
> >>>>> Why leave this in commented out instead of just removing it?
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, there's 2 problems with that test.  1) it's flaky and 2) it's
> >>>> failing.  Someone fixing 2 doesn't necessarily fix 1.  So they'll
> probably
> >>>> want to add it back into that list when they're finished.  It's also
> >>>> documentation.  I don't really see any downside.
> >>>
> >>> We have a process for dealing with flaky tests. If it passes sometimes
> >>> and fails sometimes, mark it PASS FAIL. Why is this case an exception?
> I see
> >>> two downsides:
> >>>
> >>> Now when it fails, it will turn the tree red.
> >>> If we make a practice of leaving in commented out tests this file
> becomes
> >>> even more bloated than it is now.
> >
> >
>

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