On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > > That's right, layout tests were designed to be regression tests rather than > correctness tests. They are supposed to detect changes in behavior. Having > an existing bug is not necessarily a good reason to drop test coverage. > > I think instead of introducing a new -failing.txt concept, a better > approach would be to have a way to mark in test_expectations.txt that the > checked-in -expected.txt for that particular platform represents a bug. I > think that is a better way to indicate the state, all in a centralized > place, than using a different filename. >
We can already do this by adding a line: BUG????? my-test.html = PASS as I wrote earlier. This will force DRT to still run the test and compare the result with the existing my-test-expected.txt and my-test-expected.png if there is one. - Ryosuke
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