> From: "Ehsan Akhgari" <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> > To: "Jeff Gilbert" <jgilb...@mozilla.com> > Cc: "Chris AtLee" <cat...@mozilla.com>, "Jonathan Griffin" > <jgrif...@mozilla.com>, dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:00:15 PM > Subject: Re: Experiment with running debug tests less often on > mozilla-inbound the week of August 25 > > On 2014-08-20, 6:29 PM, Jeff Gilbert wrote: > > If running debug tests on a single platform is generally sufficient for > > non-graphics bugs, > > It is not. That is the point I was trying to make. :-) > > > it might be useful to have the Graphics branch run debug tests on all > platforms, for use with graphics checkins. (while running a decreased > number of debug tests on the main branches) It's still possible for > non-graphics code to expose platform-specific bugs, but it's less > likely, so maybe larger regression windows are acceptable for > platform-specific bugs in non-graphics code. > > I don't really understand how graphics is special here. We do have > platform specific code outside of graphics as well, so we don't need to > solve this problem for gfx specifically. >
Maybe Graphics isn't that special, but this stuff hits really close to home for us. I have been asked in the past if we really need to run WebGL tests on Android, if they have coverage on Desktop platforms. And then again later, why B2G if we have Android. There seems to be enough belief in test-once-run-everywhere that I feel the need to *firmly* establish that this is not acceptable, at least for the code I work with. I'm happy I'm not alone in this. -Jeff _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
