> On May 9, 2017, at 8:11 AM, Geoffrey Garen <gga...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> What we're suggesting is to give preferential treatments to
>> testharness.js over js-test.js / js-test-pre.js when you were already
>> planning to write a test with the latter two scripts.
> 
> OK, I think this makes sense.
> 
> But I still think the very best kind of test is a flat file with 10-20 lines 
> of code in it. Particularly for debugging JavaScript issues, large wrapper 
> frameworks get in the way.
> 
>> - Tests would be more easily upstreamable to web-platform-tests, which are 
>> run by all major browser engines. This would help a lot in terms of 
>> interoperability. As previously discussed, Gecko and Blink already do 
>> automated export of tests to web-platform-tests. I believe we should do in 
>> the same direction and contribute more tests back.
> 
> I wonder why these other projects do automated export instead of 
> incorporating testharness.js directly.

I don't think that's an "also", not an "instead". My understanding is that they 
do two-way sync with the web-platform-tests GitHub, so there's a process for 
downloading tests and upstreaming tests authored by their team. But they still 
have their own copy.

Regards,
Maciej

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