On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <a...@webkit.org> wrote: > On 26.04.2010, at 22:06, Adam Barth wrote: >> If you make changes to CodeGenerator*.pm, please test your >> change using the following command: >> >> ~/git/webkit$ ./WebKitTools/Scripts/run-bindings-tests > > > I don't understand the utility of such testing. When one edits > CodeGenerator*.pm, that's generally to change its output, so > run-bindings-tests tests will of course fail. > > It's great to test end-to-end behavior, and unit tests can also also useful > sometimes, but why test that source code stays byte to byte identical?
I should say that there's also a class of changes to CodeGenerator*.pm where we don't want to change its output at all. For example, removing some of the ridiculously deeply nested if statements. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
