On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Peter Kasting <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Elliot Poger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Can someone please remind me why IMAGE+TEXT even exists?
>>
>> Wouldn't it be simpler to just mark a test as follows?
>>
>>    - IMAGE : allow image failure; go red if there is a text failure
>>    - TEXT: allow text failure; go red if there is an image failure
>>    - IMAGE TEXT: allow text and/or image failure
>>
>> The distinction is that IMAGE TEXT will allow image, text, or both to
> fail, thus making transitions among the three generate no events.
>  IMAGE+TEXT says specifically that we expect both to fail and that if one
> starts passing, someone should do something.  (For example, maybe someone
> checks in a partial rebaseline where they miss the image expectations.)
>

Thanks for the explanation.

That makes sense, although it seems to me that the problem of
no-events-generated-by-changes-in-actual-images-while-IMAGE-failure-is-expected
is about 100x worse for us.

But that's not a reason to hide these particular transitions! :-)


>
> PK
>
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