Is it by design that only mac bots run regression tests? Technical issue? Lack of resources?
2014-01-30 9:05 GMT+01:00 Alexey Proskuryakov <a...@webkit.org>: > Hi WebKit hackers, > > It sometimes happens that people land patches despite EWS detecting layout > test regressions, especially when these seem too unlikely to believe. > > In my experience, EWS has been very stable recently, and if tester bubbles > are red, it almost certainly means that the patch is faulty. Even if they > don't turn red, but remain yellow for a long time, there is a good chance > that the patch introduces flaky failures, so EWS can't make up its mind > about exactly which tests regressed. > > If you click on a yellow bubble, that takes you to a page with additional > details, where you can see which tests are failing. I'd like to look into > improving how this information is presented at some point in the future, > yet even now, it shouldn't be too time consuming to check what's going on. > > For reference, we currently have mac and mac-wk2 EWS bots running > regression tests in release mode. Other bots only verify that the patch > builds, and don't run tests. No bots use debug mode as far as I know, so > debug-only build failures and assertions will not be detected. Please run > tests locally to catch as many of those as possible. > > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev >
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