Looks great to me. I think web developers are interested in browser
testing and this can be a resource we point them to in order to help
them understand how to write good reduced test cases. In fact, a post
about writing good reduced test cases for bugs would be a great
followup.

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011, Mihai Parparita <mih...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Song,
> I've added a link to https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WikiStart#LayoutTests at 
> the end of the first post.
>
> Mihai
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:42 PM,  <song.7....@nokia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> But where is the reference link in WebKit documentation site?A central place 
> could help manage the doc and people find it…
>  Thanks,Song
>  From: webkit-dev-boun...@lists.webkit.org 
> [mailto:webkit-dev-boun...@lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of ext Mihai Parparita
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:24 AM
> To: WebKit Development
> Subject: [webkit-dev] Blog post(s) about layout tests
> I noticed that we haven't done any posts on the WebKit blog about layout 
> tests. Since getting good reductions in bug reports is very helpful, it seems 
> like educating web developers about how we test things is helpful.
>  I've written a draft pair of posts that talk about layout tests in 
> general/theory (part I) and some nitty-gritty details that we run into with 
> the system as it stands today (part II). The posts can also be combined into 
> one, if that makes more sense:
>  https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17OqoB-eBxcsJHpZeAyBAOUPG3Y903Ef2S-PKfKM4xBQ
>  I've shown the draft to a few web developer friends, and their eyes didn't 
> totally glaze over :). The post is link-heavy (generally into Trac, and 
> Bugzilla), I'm hoping that would also encourage exploration of the code/site 
> by people interested in contributing.
>  Let me know if you think this is appropriate for the WebKit blog, and if so 
> what the mechanics of posting on the blog are.
>  Thanks,Mihai P.S. If you'd like to make comments on the document directly, 
> let me know and I can add you as an editor.
>
>
>
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