Hi Ross,

> On Jan 15, 2019, at 11:50 AM, ross.kirsl...@sony.com wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody,
>  
> I’d like to verify whether there’s any specific reason that the 
> LayoutTests/sputnik directory continues to exist.
>  
> According to Wikipedia, “All current Sputnik tests have been incorporated 
> into ECMA's Test262 test suite.” (Here “current” evidently means June 2011.) 
> And indeed, when making fixes to address Test262 failures in JSC, it’s quite 
> awkward to have to update the Sputnik expectations to reflect any new 
> “failures”—particularly given that it’s not sufficient to simply build JSC in 
> order to run them.
I think it’s a good idea to remove these. (An aside: in general, I’m also not a 
fan of JS tests that don’t rely on the DOM existing in LayoutTests.)

>  
> Would anyone object to a patch deleting this directory outright? The only 
> concern that occurs to me is that Test262 is not currently integrated into 
> EWS.
Maybe we should integrate these into EWS? The main downside is IIRC, these take 
a while to run. I think it’s ok to remove these even if we never add Test262 to 
EWS since we still run Test262 on bots post-commit.

- Saam

>  
> Thanks!
> Ross
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