On Feb 23, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > The challenge with reftests is coming up with different markup that's > supposed to render exactly the same, but for unrelated reasons. While it's > possible, for example, to compare a table layout to absolute positioned > boxes, for some things you get down to primitives that can't be tested > independently. For example you can test that <b>, <strong> and font-weight: > bold have the same results, but none of that tells you whether bold in fact > works. You could have a regression which caused bold to be completely ignored > and would not be able to catch it with a reftest.
Apparently you can also write tests that assert that the two renderings are *not* identical. So you could have one test that has bold text and another that has non-bold test, and assert that they are different. See <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_reftest-based_unit_tests>. -Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
