On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote:

> For a layout engine, being able to attach an actual testcase to a bug
> report is _really_ useful once you get out of "just build it" mode and into
> "fix all the bugs in this thing you built" mode.  Github issues simply have
> no way to do this that I've been able to find.  You can put testcases on
> jsfiddle or other such services, but it's really hard to do minimal
> testcases that way because of all the things those services pull in, it's
> impossible to test some things (e.g. parser issues, quirks mode) because
> there's little control over the markup, and there are absolutely no
> guarantees your testcase will be around in 5 years when you want to see
> what that code change was trying to fix.
>
> This is really a problem I expect you'll want to solve at some point if
> you want to be able to get useful functionality bug reports and community
> QA.


Developers can commit testcases to a github repo and reference them with
github.io URLs, but that's no good for casual (e.g. web-developer level)
bug reporters. So, yes indeed.

Rob
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