>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Ojan Vafai <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think this is just about ignoring image-only results on mac for
>>> the short-term. My subjective sense is that we have many tests that start
>>> out as failing only image comparisons (e.g. due to theming), but over time
>>> another failure creeps in that causes a text failure that goes unnoticed.
>>> We'd ideally like to notice that extra regression when it happens as it
>>> might be easy to identify and fix right at the time the regression occurs.
>>
>> That's pretty much where we are with the Mac pixel tests--we do want to
>> know if layout geometry regresses, even if there's a known pixel expectation
>> failure (a color, or a missing spelling underline, or whatever it is for
>> that test).
>> --Amanda
>>
>

I'm on record earlier as wanting to know when even the expected errors
change, so this seems to me like a nice half-way compromise.

Pam is right, of course, that we should be targeting zero errors, but
I don't think this will really slow us much in that effort (and it'll
probably help).

-- Dirk

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